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

Sea levels are rising faster than at any point in the last 4,000 years, highlighting the urgent need for “global and local” action. New research has warned that climate change and human activities are ...

Sea-level rise has accelerated across Africa in recent decades, thanks to global warming and, in particular, to the melting ...

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

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 ...

Researchers analyzed 40 deltas across five continents, including the Mississippi, Mekong, Nile and Ganges–Brahmaputra systems. In 18 of those deltas, land subsidence already exceeds sea-level rise, ...

A new study published in Nature finds human-driven land sinking now outpaces sea-level rise in many of the world’s major delta systems, threatening more than 236 million people.