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Worldwide, millions of people live in river deltas that are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, research suggests.

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

A new study published in Nature finds human-driven land sinking now outpaces sea-level rise in many of the world’s major ...