delta

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

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

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

From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026

All rigging whole and all hands well, we rested, letting the wind and steersmen work the ships, for five days; on the fifth we made the delta.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

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

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

Several major deltas are experiencing especially rapid elevation loss, including those of the Mekong, Nile, Chao Phraya, Ganges-Brahmaputra, Mississippi, and Yellow rivers.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 20, 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

Her eyes were the same deep-set smiles as her son’s, with more extensive deltas of creases at the corners.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor