In recent years, rising sea levels have made Jakarta the world's fastest-sinking megacity, which sparked the Indonesian government's decision to move the capital. Take a closer look at Nusantara.

Jakarta — the fastest-sinking city in the world — has finally taken action on its core land subsidence problem when groundwater free zones for highrise buildings will start to be established ...

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 ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The pressing issues of climate change have led to some of the world’s major distressing occurrences in recent years, with sinking lands and sea levels rising being particular ...

Jakarta is facing all sorts of problems - deadly floods, land subsidence, extreme pollution, notorious traffic and overcrowding. Indonesia’s outgoing president has come up with an extreme ...

Jakarta, a megacity built on a delta, is sinking rapidly and floods often. Jakarta — Apart from the narrow, unpaved road, the two-meter-high concrete coastal wall is the only thing that ...

Rendering of future 150-metre tall presidential palace at the heart of Nusantara (Photo: AFP) Ambitious plans are in place to relocate an entire sinking city 1,200 miles away to a large island ...

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 ...

Indonesia is reviving plans to construct a giant sea wall in the latest of measures to prevent its capital city of Jakarta from sinking at a faster rate. The project will require three phases of ...

However, for Indonesia, the primitive landscape of Nusantara proved a more attractive option than its current capital, Jakarta, dubbed by some experts as the world’s fastest-sinking megacity.

Columbus is slowly sinking into the ground, one of a handful of major U.S. cities dropping across almost the entirety of its boundaries. Why it matters: This sinking — called urban land subsidence — ...