delta

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

Fishermen working the sea between the Irrawaddy delta and the coast of Mon state found several other bodies nine days later.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 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

Saltwater is beginning to contaminate farmland reclaimed over the past five centuries from the delta marshes.

From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026

Yes, everything was once water, but the Earth formed out of the oceans by a natural process—similar, he thought, to the silting he had observed at the delta of the Nile.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

To assess the risk to China's deltas, the researchers combined geological records, measurements of land subsidence, and data on human impacts.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2025

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

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