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

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

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

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

The Yangtze River Basin is critical to both China's economy and the environment. Stretching from the snow-capped plateau in ...

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 ...

It’s not just that sea levels are rising. Scientists believe fossil fuel extraction and river engineering are also factors ...