Our neighbour Indonesia has not been spared with its capital Jakarta now under threat of being submerged after it began sinking over the past few decades. Often, such a phenomenon is attributed to ...

Unfortunately, Jakarta is also known as one of the fastest-sinking cities in the world, and the issue has become so extreme ...

Among one of the most extraordinary claims of how fast the ocean is rising and claiming land, homes, and business on the water, the most fantastic is that the Pacific is rising 40 times faster in some ...

These massive cities are sinking into the ocean as climate change fuels rising sea levels all around the world.

Researchers like Heri Andreas and Hiroshi Takagi doubt that the giant embankment is the ultimate solution to Jakarta's sinking threat. "Yes, in the short term, it’s non-negotiable that the embankment ...

More than 200 people have stayed in one of Indonesia’s fastest sinking areas ... global warming Large parts of megalopolis capital Jakarta are expected to be submerged by 2050 for the same ...

JAKARTA--Jakarta is congested, polluted, prone to earthquakes and rapidly sinking into the Java Sea. Now the government is leaving, and moving the country’s capital to the island of Borneo.

Which is why cities like Jakarta, Pekalongan and Semarang, are sinking at a rate of between 1cm and 26cm every year. The loose soils of these cities are compacted by the weight of man-made ...

Indonesia plans to move its capital city away from congested and sinking Jakarta, to Nusantara, a $32-billion city under construction in the jungles of East Kalimantan on Borneo. The city is a ...

The country's capital, Jakarta, has been sinking with 40% of the capital lying below sea level, per The New York Times. Because of this, the city has faced severe flooding, especially as climate ...

South Bangka. Two employees of state-owned tin mining company Timah were rescued in a dramatic operation early Thursday after ...