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, ...

From the Nile to the Mississippi, sinking land is compounding sea-level rise. A new study pinpoints where deltas are dropping ...

New research involving the University of East Anglia (UEA) reveals how fast the world’s river deltas are sinking and the human-driven causes. Home to hundreds of millions of people, until now it was ...

Ocean levels crept up more quickly than expected last year, according to a NASA team that monitors changes in sea levels from outer space. New analysis from the federal agency said that while global ...

Press Play with Madeleine Brand Groundwater pumping now a leading cause of sea level rise Humans are extracting fresh water from underground aquifers, accelerating the drying of land all over the ...

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 ...

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 ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from the poles. But ...