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Ancient city crumbles as looming threat begins to wreak havoc: 'Undoing in decades what took millennia of human ingenuity to create'
The ancient Egyptian city of Alexandria is increasingly succumbing to rising sea levels and saltwater intrusion. As a result, ...
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Cleopatra’s birthplace sees ‘dramatic surge’ in building collapses as sea level rises, study shows
This “revealed that buildings are collapsing from the bottom up, as seawater intrusion erodes foundations and weakens the soil,” said Ibrahim H. Saleh, a soil radiation scientist at Alexandria ...
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Climate change is coming for coastlines, from ancient cities to modern California: Study
“Our isotope analysis revealed that buildings are collapsing from the bottom up, as seawater intrusion erodes foundations and weakens the soil,” co-author Ibrahim Saleh, a soil radiation ...