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The mouth of the Mississippi River in south Louisiana. The delta of the Mississippi is sinking faster than local sea-level rise rates. Photo courtesy of Adobe Stock.

Major river deltas are sinking faster than sea-level rise

May 2, 2026

Broad surfaces called terraces preserve ancient river floodplains and landscape history up to hundreds of meters above the Fortymile River, a tributary of the Yukon River, in eastern Alaska. Researchers from the USGS, the University of Vermont, Purdue University and Utah State University publish definitive support that increases in sediment deposited to oceans from river erosion coincide with dramatic changes in glacial cycles. Credit: USGS

Geoscientist Aids Study of Climatic Change Impacts on River Erosion

Mekong River

New understanding of Mekong River incision

By analyzing centuries-old growth rings from trees in the Intermountain West, researchers at USU are extracting data about monthly streamflow trends from periods long before the early 1900s when recorded observations began.

Between the lines: Tree rings hold clues about a river’s past

Riverbed armor

How Rivers Resist Erosion

Ganges River

January 14, 2015

Araguaia River

December 22, 2014

Vilyuy River

December 7, 2014

Zambezi River

November 25, 2014

Massive river system buried under today’s Goldfields

November 25, 2014

Danube River

November 23, 2014

Yarlung Tsangpo River

November 17, 2014

Brahmaputra River

November 10, 2014

Nizhnyaya Tunguska River

November 3, 2014

Rio Grande River

October 30, 2014

Saint Louis River

October 24, 2014

St. Marys River

October 14, 2014

St. Clair River

October 8, 2014

Detroit River

October 2, 2014

Niagara River

September 20, 2014

Saint Lawrence River

September 18, 2014

Salween River

September 13, 2014

Naryn River

September 6, 2014

Syr Darya

August 18, 2014

São Francisco River

August 16, 2014

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