{"id":11657,"date":"2023-12-18T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T12:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=11657"},"modified":"2023-12-18T12:32:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T12:32:00","slug":"lagos-takes-second-place-in-cities-vulnerable-to-disappearance-by-2100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/12\/18\/lagos-takes-second-place-in-cities-vulnerable-to-disappearance-by-2100\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos Takes Second Place in Cities Vulnerable to Disappearance by 2100"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"w-full text-token-text-primary\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-55\">\n<div class=\"px-4 py-2 justify-center text-base md:gap-6 m-auto\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-1 text-base mx-auto gap-3 md:px-5 lg:px-1 xl:px-5 md:max-w-3xl lg:max-w-[40rem] xl:max-w-[48rem] group\">\n<div class=\"relative flex w-full flex-col lg:w-[calc(100%-115px)] agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-grow flex-col max-w-full\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] text-message flex flex-col items-start gap-3 whitespace-pre-wrap break-words [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5 overflow-x-auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"354e2430-3d0d-4827-bc29-4555bf29b6e4\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert dark\">\n<p>Lagos, Nigeria&#8217;s economic hub, has been ranked as the second city on the list of sinking cities that may vanish by 2100.<\/p>\n<p>The World Economic Forum, as per World of Statistics, identifies Jakarta, Indonesia, as the top city sinking at a rate of 6.7 inches per year due to excessive groundwater pumping.<\/p>\n<p>Lagos is experiencing a sinking rate of 0.3 inches per year, coupled with the looming threat of coastal erosion.<\/p>\n<p>Houston, Texas, in the United States, follows closely, sinking at a rate of 0.2 inches per year, with the added vulnerability to hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>The top three sinking cities, Jakarta, Lagos, and Houston, are accompanied by others on the list: Dhaka, Bangladesh, Venice, Italy, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Bangkok, Thailand, New Orleans, Louisiana, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Alexandria, Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Miami, Florida, secures the 11th spot on the list.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lagos, Nigeria&#8217;s economic hub, has been ranked as the second city on the list of sinking cities that may vanish by 2100. The World Economic Forum, as per World of Statistics, identifies Jakarta, Indonesia, as the top city sinking at a rate of 6.7 inches per year due to excessive groundwater pumping. Lagos is experiencing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":11661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11733,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657\/revisions\/11733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}