JAKARTA IS SINKING

 

With more than 10 million inhabitants the Indonesian megacity is facing the effects of land subsidence and sea level rise . A lethal combo that along with the Indonesian climate facilitates floods .

"The potential for Jakarta to be submerged isn't a laughing matter," says Heri Andreas, who has studied Jakarta's land subsidence for the past 20 years at the Bandung Institute of Technology.

2020: A YEAR OF CATASTROPHES

 

We ended 2019 with a problem that lasted for months and that damaged Australia: a terrible forest fire that destroyed millions of hectares. If 2019 left us with the Earth burning; 2020 was no less; indeed it was a year of misfortunes and catastrophes since the beginning.