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    "Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA",
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    "Virginia Tech National Security Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA",
    "Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut, Technische Universität München, München, Germany",
    "Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA",
    "Resource Economics Group, Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute and Berlin Workshop in Institutional Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems (WINS), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany",
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  "title": "Subsidence more than doubles sea-level rise today along densely populated coasts",
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