{"id":33823,"date":"2025-11-15T18:48:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T18:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=33823"},"modified":"2025-11-15T18:48:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T18:48:02","slug":"why-coastal-megacities-should-look-inland-for-research-collaborations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=33823","title":{"rendered":"Why coastal megacities should look inland for research collaborations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <\/p>\n<p>Much of humanity lives close to the shore. A 2024 study estimated that in 2018, around 2 billion people lived within 50 kilometres of a coast, with half of them \u2014 about 15% of the world\u2019s population \u2014 settled within just 10 km (A. G. Cosby et al. Sci. Rep. 14, 22489; 2024). Coastal zones are also growing faster than inland areas: between 2000 and 2018, some 460 million people moved to the coast, a shift the authors liken to adding 46 new megacities of 10 million residents each.<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"recommended__title u-serif\">Nature Index 2025 Science cities<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, sea levels are rising faster than at any point in modern history and coastal megacities are often more susceptible to subsidence. Indonesia\u2019s US$51-billion plan to move its capital from Jakarta \u2014 one of the world\u2019s fastest sinking cities \u2014 to a new city, Nusantara on the island of Borneo, by 2045, is one acute example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of humanity lives close to the shore. A 2024 study estimated that in 2018, around 2 billion people lived within 50 kilometres of a coast, with half of them \u2014 about 15% of the world\u2019s population \u2014 settled within just 10 km (A. G. Cosby et al. Sci. Rep. 14, 22489; 2024). Coastal zones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[3047,11082,19317,19316,3141],"class_list":{"0":"post-33823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-coastal","9":"tag-collaborations","10":"tag-inland","11":"tag-megacities","12":"tag-research"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}