delta
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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
At the delta of the Rhine and Meuse in the Netherlands, on land largely reclaimed from the North Sea, it's the biggest port for freight, external in Europe.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
The strategy to carry customers over the delta between Play-Doh for kids and Play-Doh for adults starts with the new Blooms brand name.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
A high delta means the convertibles track the stock closely.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
To learn more about the dispute, I visited the delta of the Nis- qually River, at the southern tip of Puget Sound.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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
Researchers used advanced satellite radar systems to measure changes in surface elevation across deltas on five continents.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 20, 2026
A new study published in Nature finds that many of the world's largest river deltas are subsiding more quickly than global sea levels are rising, putting hundreds of millions of people at potential risk.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 20, 2026
"Centimeters of sea level rise will greatly increase the risk of flooding in deltas," Lin said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2025
In his badly penned sigmas and deltas she spied the shaking hand of her son’s growing anxiety.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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