Worldwide, millions of people live in river deltas that are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, research suggests.

A new study says river deltas around the world aren’t just disappearing because of rising seas, but because the land itself ...

A new scientific assessment finds California's Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is in poor ecological health, and that a ...

The findings point to heightening near-term flood risk for more than 236 million people, but river delta flooding is an issue ...

The Ganga-Brahmaputra Delta stretches across eastern India and Bangladesh and supports tens of millions of people through ...

A study published in Nature shows that many of the world's major river deltas are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, ...

From the Nile to the Mississippi, sinking land is compounding sea-level rise. A new study pinpoints where deltas are dropping ...

Researchers analyzed 40 deltas across five continents, including the Mississippi, Mekong, Nile and Ganges–Brahmaputra systems ...

Research has uncovered groundwater use as the primary driver for a river deltas sinking worldwide. Some river deltas are ...

New research involving the University of East Anglia (UEA) reveals how fast the world’s river deltas are sinking and the human-driven causes. Home to hundreds of millions of people, until now it was ...

Using images from cameras on Mars orbiters, an international research team has discovered structures on Mars that are very ...