Satellite data show India’s major river deltas are sinking due to human activity, with severe risks for millions living in these regions.

Satellite data reveals alarming subsidence rates in India's deltas, primarily driven by human activity, threatening millions ...

Satellite analysis finds major deltas sinking faster than sea-level rise, with groundwater use and urbanisation to blame ...

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.

Rising seas could flood coastal and delta areas in India that will change landscapes and put cities, farmland and important ...

The assessment spanning 40 delta regions worldwide has identified the three in eastern India among 19 where land subsidence — largely attributed to the over-extraction of groundwater — affects over 90 ...

The world's major river deltas, including the Ganga-Brahmaputra, are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, heightening ...

The findings point to heightening near-term flood risk for more than 236 million people, but river delta flooding is an issue of global food security as well. “Billions of people rely on the food that ...

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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, ...

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