The earth beneath our major cities is heating up, morphing in ways that could damage buildings, bridges, and transport systems.
. Add heat to the mix, and the ground beneath cities can slowly shift, settle, and subside as soils dry out and compact.
While all built environments absorb heat from the Sun, fine-grained clay sediments like those below Chicago are particularly prone to shrinking or swelling with heat and water.says "The ground [in Chicago] is deforming as a result of temperature variations, and no existing civil structure or infrastructure is designed to withstand these variations,"Rotta Loria who found Chicago's ground temperatures are currently warming at around 0.14 °C per year.
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