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

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

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

Some generators of the Sewerage & Water Board still produce 25 hertz electricity, a century after the rest of the world moved ...

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

Urgent flood warnings swept across Washington, Mississippi, and Louisiana on January 11, 2026, as swollen rivers pushed past ...

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 ...

Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign can now differentiate between human-derived and hydrological ...

Traffic is currently backed up as some lanes along the Interstate 40 Mississippi River Bridge are closed due to emergency ...

As of Wednesday, official data shows that Lake Mead is just 33 percent full, with around 8.7 million acre-feet of water in ...

A federal investigation details how a barge sank on the Lower Mississippi River near New Roads in 2024, causing millions in ...