{"id":5581,"date":"2023-07-09T06:16:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T04:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=5581"},"modified":"2023-07-09T06:16:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T04:16:32","slug":"london-is-falling-and-its-because-of-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/07\/09\/london-is-falling-and-its-because-of-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"London is falling and it&#039;s because of climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Country\u00a0<\/span><span>experiences long periods of drought<\/span><span>\u00a0after wet winters since last year. This is causing the porous rock beneath large parts of southeast England, including London, to move more than usual, cracking or tilting many of the city&#039;s historic houses in its most upscale neighborhoods. The damage has triggered the highest insurance payout in almost two decades, with experts warning it could get worse. <\/span><span>London clay, the type of soil that covers most of these areas, is \u201cquite unique\u201d in that it can shrink and swell a lot, says Lee Jones, a geological engineer at the British Geological Survey who has studied Britain\u2019s hazards for more than 30 years. \u201cThe wetter it is, the more it swells and expands, and the drier it is, the more it shrinks and cracks,\u201d he said, adding that future temperature extremes will worsen the impact on buildings and roads.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country has been experiencing long spells of drought after wet winters since last year. This is causing the porous rock beneath large parts of south-east England, including London, to move more than usual, cracking or tilting many of the city\u2019s historic houses in its most upmarket neighbourhoods. The damage has triggered the highest insurance payout in almost two decades, with experts warning it could get worse. London\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}