Worldwide, millions of people live in river deltas that are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, research suggests. This exacerbates the risk of catastrophic coastal flooding and land loss.

It’s usually a bad idea to generalize too much about anything – particularly science, where different selection pressures and environmental one-offs can tweak a basic model into something quite out of ...

A new study says river deltas around the world aren’t just disappearing because of rising seas, but because the land itself is sinking down into the waters, either as fast or faster than the rising ...

A study published in Nature shows that many of the world's major river deltas are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, potentially affecting hundreds of millions of people in these regions. The ...

A hidden force is causing highly populated river deltas to sink. In many cases, the subsidence is happening faster than the sea is rising ...

A global study of major river deltas shows human-driven land subsidence is now overtaking climate change as the biggest flood ...

Severe flooding hits Palisades Medical Center in Hudson County, N.J., on Oct. 30. (Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu/Getty Images via Inside Climate News) This story originally appeared on Inside Climate ...

Even as global warming causes sea levels to rise worldwide, sea levels around Greenland will likely drop, according to a new ...

Sea-level rise changes coastlines, putting homes at risk, as Summer Haven, Fla., has seen. Aerial Views/E+/Getty Images Shaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of ...

A new study says river deltas around the world aren’t just disappearing because of rising seas, but also because the land itself is sinking down into the waters, either as fast or faster than the ...