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.

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) have found a new layer under Greenland's ice sheet that ...

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

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 ...

A new study says river deltas around the world aren’t just disappearing because of rising seas, but because the land itself ...

The world's major river deltas, including the Ganga-Brahmaputra, are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, heightening flood risk in surrounding areas and potentially impacting the lives of 236 ...

Scientists are sounding the alarm after observing that the Atlantic Ocean has entered a phase of exceptionally rapid sea ...