Mexico City Sinking: NASA Satellite Reveals Crisis

0:00On May 1, Mexico City is sinking almost 10 inches a year, making it one of the fastest subsiding cities on the planet, according to fresh NASA. Satellite images drop this week. The whole metro area spans about 3,000 square miles, with 22 million residents, all built on the bed of a dried up ancient lake, where heavy groundwater pumping has been compacting the soft soil for over a century. That's sinking is wrecking key infrastructure, like the subway, drainage systems, water supply, homes and streets, as researchers from Mexico's top. University point out, turning everyday life into a slow motion crisis tied to a worsening water shortage. New data from NASA's NISAR satellite, which scanned from October 2025 to January 2026, clocks sinking at nearly 2 centimeters a month in spots like the main airport and the angel of Independence Monument, with some areas dropping over 39 feet in the last century. This tech breakthrough lets scientists track changes from space, spot underground shifts,

1:03and push governments toward real fixes, especially as Mexico. City officials finally ramp up funding to tackle the subsidence head on. That's the story for today, Global News Today, Driven by AI, I'm Cory with the story.