This week's science news was a maelstrom of cosmic calamity and terrestrial turmoil. The International Space Station's Crew-11 made a precipitous exit, a medical emergency necessitating their early return, a first in the ISS's 25-year history. The sudden departure, announced mere days in advance, left the station with a skeletal crew of four, awaiting the arrival of Crew-12 next month. Meanwhile, NASA's Mars sample return mission, a vaunted endeavor to retrieve rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, was unceremoniously defunded, its future now uncertain. Yet, in a striking counterpoint, a recent study revealed that the world's most majestic river deltas - the Nile, Amazon, and Ganges - are sinking at an alarming rate, outpacing the rising seas. The culprit? Groundwater pumping, exacerbated by rapid urban growth and dwindling sediment flows. The confluence of rising oceans and sinking land portends a future of catastrophic floods for the world's largest cities. And yet, in a remarkable discovery, a new map of Antarctica has unveiled a hidden world of lakes, valleys, and mountains, buried beneath miles of ice. Information for this article was obtained from --- Science.
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