The pressure from New York City’s massive buildings is making some areas more vulnerable to sink lower into the ocean, according to new research.

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NYC is sinking: Huge buildings, rising seas accelerate swell, study says

The Manhattan skyline is seen from the observatory of the Empire State Building in New York City on Wednesday, January 12, 2022.

The pressure from New York City’s massive buildings is making some areas more vulnerable to sink lower into the ocean, according to new research.

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Target is recalling nearly five million candles after reports of nearly 150 of them cracked while burning, injuring people. Threshold Glass candles were sold between August 2019 and March 2023, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is reporting.
 

Target recalls nearly 5 million candles after injuries reported

 

The recalled Threshold glass candles were sold at Target stores and Target.com over a four-year period.

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First class control operator Hector Martinez at the control panel for a turbine inside the Danskammer power plant on December 9, 2022. The plant uses natural gas to produce steam which spins the turbines and creates electricity.
 

New York gets tough with owners of natural gas plants

 

New York's green-energy push puts natural gas plant owners on the defensive, forcing retirements. 'Poor public policy," trade group says.

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A sign from Danskammer Energy asking for the community to support re-powering the plant in the town of Newburgh on December 9, 2022. The company that owns Danskammer wants to upgrade the plant's turbines to modern more efficient units.
 
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How fossil fuel-burning power plants foil NY's clean energy plans

 

New York has vowed to get rid of natural gas plants that spew pollutants. But in the South Bronx, the shift to green energy isn't coming fast enough.

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Steven Hess holds a photo of himself and his twin sister Marion Ein Lewin, dressed in traditional Dutch costumes that was taken about a year before they were deported to the Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camps in 1944.
 
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These twins survived the Holocaust. Today’s antisemitism alarms them

 

Steven Hess and Marion Ein Lewin built lives in America after surviving the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

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