The Mediterranean Sea is heating up faster than ever before, and the consequences are already being felt. In places like ...

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

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 ...

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

Scientists say that hidden melting beneath Antarctica’s ice could rapidly reshape sea levels, but they do not know when.

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

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

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 ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from ...

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