delta
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Never mind that the peninsula is currently an ecologically protected area known as the Vjosa Narta, including a river delta and lagoon that is home to hundreds of species of birds, including flamingos.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Geological reconstructions indicate that the sediments containing the fossils formed in near-shore, shallow-water delta coastal environments.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 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
He’s in a delta somewhere but we don’t know any more than that because he isn’t allowed to tell us and he doesn’t write home much anyway.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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
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
In 18 of the 40 deltas, this downward movement, known as subsidence, already exceeds local sea-level rise.
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
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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