Worldwide, coastal river deltas are home to more than half a billion people, supporting fisheries, agriculture, cities, and fertile ecosystems. In a unique study covering 49 deltas globally, ...

Murray Scown receives funding from The Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (Formas). Frances Eleanor Dunn does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company ...

Learn about the Geography and Wildlife of the Okavango Delta in Botswana! The Okavango River makes its way from the Angolan ...

A new study has mapped 35 years of river changes on a global scale. The work has revealed significant effects on both downstream (44% decrease in water flow) and upstream (17% flow increase) rivers, ...

Mention the word “delta,” and most people will think of an airline or a cinematic fraternity house before they think of the depositional landform found at the mouth of rivers. But, really, you should ...

Climatic and anthropogenic drivers of change in the world’s deltas. a, A three-dimensional view of the system. b, A conceptual cross-section from the sea to the mountains, featuring the surface and ...

Deltas around the world are sinking, according to a new study led by CU-Boulder. One example is an image of the Pearl River Delta in China taken by NASA’s space shuttle Endeavour, with the areas below ...

Unlike lower latitude coastlines, the estuarine nearshore zones of the Alaskan Beaufort Sea are icebound and frozen up to 9 months annually. This annual freezing event represents a dramatic physical ...