delta
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One example is delta waves, the slow and rolling electrical patterns commonly associated with deep sleep.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
It’s also referred to as the delta sleep-inducing peptide.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
For decades, so much water has been taken that the river seldom meets the sea in Mexico, and its delta, once filled with lush wetlands and forests, has shriveled to stretches of dry riverbed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
A Nigerian court Friday dismissed a lawsuit by a traditional monarch in the oil-rich delta region seeking to halt Shell's plan to offload its onshore assets over accusations of decades of environmental pollution.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Oxygen, fresh, pure, green, cold oxygen turning the valley into a river delta.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
Among the most important contributors are heavy groundwater pumping, oil and gas extraction, the compression of relatively young sediments in river deltas, and the weight of expanding urban areas.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
The world-renowned site features iron carbonate concretions that formed some 309 million years ago, fossilizing within them ancient creatures that had once thrived in the area's lush swamps, shallow seas and river deltas.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
That means they are also imperiling some of the world’s most important food-producing lowlands in the Nile and Mekong deltas and cities from Shanghai to New York.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2025
Netherlands can serve as a role model for deltas worldwide, according to the authors.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2024
In fifth-grade history we had spent a lot of time worrying about the flooded river deltas of the ancient world.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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