“I would like for me and my children to live here forever,” said Lâm Thu Sang, a resident of Vietnam’s Cần Thơ, a city of more than 2 million people located near the mouth of the Mekong River on one ...

In a drought-hit Mexican border region at the center of growing competition with the United States for water, conservationists are working to bring a once-dying river delta back to life. On a stretch ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Great white egrets stand in the wetlands surrounding New Orleans. Land in this area of the Mississippi River Delta is sinking, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Satellite image of the Irrawaddy River delta in Myanmar, a major rice growing area. European Space Agency, CC BY-SA Throughout ...

Newswise — Researchers from Utrecht University in the Netherlands, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), and colleagues found that delta areas worldwide have actually gained land in the past 30 ...

This is the second in a series on river deltas and food production. In the first post, I focused on how rivers create deltas and how deltas often provide ideal conditions for agriculture. Overall, ...

After nearly half of a decade of restoration efforts, the newly reconstructed Provo River Delta is back open, providing a space for public recreation and young fish to thrive. The Provo River Delta ...

The Fraser River is unique among the world's great rivers—a huge, relatively natural, undammed, mountain river running through a dense urban area. But a lack of monitoring and poor management could ...

Perilously situated between rising sea levels and pressures from upstream lie coastal river deltas and their roughly half a billion inhabitants. These regions have played an important role in societal ...

Already, more than 30 million people worldwide are in danger of catastrophic floods − and now they face further danger from the river deltas which are their homes. Ocean storm surges which are one ...