The decision to move Iran’s capital is partly driven by climate change, but experts say decades of human error and action are also to blame
  • nymnympseudonym@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 months ago

    the proposal does not change the reality for the nearly 10 million people who live in Tehran

    They’re moving the political capital… but leaving the people.

    Just like in Poltergeist. Moved the graveyard… but only the headstones!!

  • someguy3@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 months ago

    One recent study found that Iran’s central plateau, where most of the country’s aquifers are located, is sinking by more than 35 centimeters each year. As a result, the aquifers lose about 1.7 billion cubic meters of water annually as the ground is permanently crushed, leaving no space for underground water storage to recover, says Darío Solano, a geoscientist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, who was not involved with the study.