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 ...

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

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

Of the 40 deltas studied, most areas are sinking rather than rising. In over half of the deltas, the average subsidence ...

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 ...

China's Yangtze River Delta railway network plans to temporarily suspend some passenger train services from Sunday to ...

Rain is needed to give the best conditions and best opportunity for waterfowl hunting statewide. That big, 6- to 8-inch ...

Water started to flow through the section of the Yakima River in Richland at noon Tuesday after being blocked at Bateman ...

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