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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

California water officials have released a new proposed water plan for the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, backing an approach supported by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Newsom calls it a “collaborative, ...

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