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Tehran’s drastic sinking exposed by satellite data

Parts of Iran’s capital city, home to 13 million people, are subsiding by 25 centimetres each year.
  1. Kate Ravilious
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Tehran, western Asia's largest city by population, is sinking.

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Nature 564, 17-18 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07580-x

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