China Is Sinking, With Urbanization, Water Extraction and Mining to Blame, Science Study Says

China is subsiding and one in 10 homes in coastal cities could be below sea level within a century, a paper published in Science Magazine warned last week.

Of the 82 major cities studied, home to 74% of China’s urban population, 16% were sinking rapidly — faster than 10 millimeters a year. These included the capital Beijing and its neighbor Tianjin, the paper said.