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

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

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

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

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

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