Many of the world's biggest river deltas — including the Nile, Amazon and Ganges — are sinking faster than global sea levels are rising, a new study shows. This means subsidence is becoming the main ...

In a drought-hit Mexican border region at the center of growing competition with the United States for water, conservationists are working to bring a once-dying river delta back to life. On a stretch ...

The Mississippi River carries sediment into the Gulf of Mexico. This true-color image, acquired from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Terra satellite shows the ...

River deltas offer numerous ecosystem services and host an estimated global population of 350 million to more than 500 million inhabitants in over 100 countries. To maintain their sustainability into ...

The Fraser River is unique among the world's great rivers—a huge, relatively natural, undammed, mountain river running through a dense urban area. But a lack of monitoring and poor management could ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — River deltas along the Mississippi River have seen some massive changes in recent years. Not only are many parts of the delta losing land, but there are also areas that are growing — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Satellite image of the Irrawaddy River delta in Myanmar, a major rice growing area. European Space Agency, CC BY-SA Throughout ...

This is the second in a series on river deltas and food production. In the first post, I focused on how rivers create deltas and how deltas often provide ideal conditions for agriculture. Overall, ...

From the Yellow River in China to the Mississippi River in Louisiana, researchers are racing to better understand and mitigate the degradation of some of the world’s most important river deltas, ...