{"id":2503,"date":"2026-02-17T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/river-deltas-are-sinking-faster-than-the-sea-is-rising\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:00:00","slug":"river-deltas-are-sinking-faster-than-the-sea-is-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/river-deltas-are-sinking-faster-than-the-sea-is-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"River deltas are sinking faster than the sea is rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2026\/02\/yellow_river_delta_china\/27114385-1-eng-GB\/Yellow_River_Delta_China_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Yellow River Delta, China\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Earth\u2019s river deltas, home to about 5% of the global population and some of the world\u2019s major cities, are experiencing subsidence, which exacerbates the risks from sea-level rise. The Copernicus Sentinel-1\u00a0mission has captured a decade&#8217;s worth of data showing land sinking faster than previously thought.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth\u2019s river deltas, home to about 5% of the global population and some of the world\u2019s major cities, are experiencing subsidence, which exacerbates the risks from sea-level rise. The Copernicus Sentinel-1\u00a0mission has captured a decade&#8217;s worth of data showing land sinking faster than previously thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}