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Hampton Roads' land is sinking twice as fast as sea levels are rising
May 11, 2023
https://www.vpm.org/news/2023-05-10/hampton-road-land-shrinking-sea-level-rise
The region can see more than 9 millimeters of annual land loss.
Locals hear it year after year: Norfolk has the highest rate of sea level rise on the East Coast. But that’s not only from rising waters. It’s also the land beneath us slowly sinking.
New research out of Virginia Tech suggests officials need to start focusing more on the latter.
It found that land in Hampton Roads is sinking at about twice the rate that waters are rising.
The study, which calls the issue a “hidden vulnerability,” was published recently in the journal Nature Communications.