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

New research by the University of Southampton has shown river deltas worldwide are sinking faster than sea levels are rising.

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

Iran’s protests are often framed as economic, political or ideological. Yet a deeper ecological crisis is eroding the fabric ...

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

Some of the world’s biggest megacities are located in river deltas threatened by subsidence due to excessive groundwater ...

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

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

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

Experts warn this could leave parts of the city underwater and cause massive economic losses if aggressive mitigation measures are not implemented.

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 ...

A new study published in Nature finds human-driven land sinking now outpaces sea-level rise in many of the world’s major ...