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Shanghai has been sinking for decades but something invisible beneath the ground is slowing it down | World News

[ad_1] Shanghai city is sinking (Image source: Canva) For decades, scientists have warned that Shanghai, one of the world’s largest and most densely populated coastal megacities, has been slowly sinking because of how humans have used the land beneath it. The problem is not new. As per reports, historical records show that parts of Shanghai […]

Titanic survivor’s haunting letter written days before sinking sells for record £300,000 at auction; here’s what it said

[ad_1] A rare letter penned by Colonel Archibald Gracie, one of the Titanic’s most distinguished survivors, has fetched a record £300,000, a fivefold increase on its estimated price, at an auction in Wiltshire, as a new high price for Titanic correspondence was smashed.The letter, dated April 10, 1912, the very day Gracie boarded the Titanic, […]

Extreme wind blamed for sinking of superyacht off Sicily last year, British probe says

[ad_1] Hebo Lift 2 monitors the stretch of sea where the British superyacht Bayesian sunk (AP) LONDON: The superyacht of British tech magnate Mike Lynch, which capsized last August off the coast of Sicily at the cost of seven lives, was knocked over by “extreme wind” and could not recover, British investigators said Thursday. Billionaire […]

32 people rescued from yacht that began sinking off Miami Beach

[ad_1] Thirty-two people were safely rescued when a Lamborghini yacht began sinking off Miami Beach over the weekend, the US Coast Guard said. The 63-foot boat began taking on water off Monument Island late Saturday afternoon. Crews from the Coast Guard, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and marine patrol units from local police agencies […]