Worldwide, millions of people live in river deltas that are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, research suggests. This exacerbates the risk of catastrophic coastal flooding and land loss.

Thomas Pesquet: The Nile river and delta at night are sumptuous. The city lights that follow the Nile and its life-giving water illuminate its passage to the Mediterranean Sea. The Moon was shining ...

The Nile is the longest river in the world, coursing about 6,650 kilometers (4,132 miles) across northeastern Africa to meet the Mediterranean Sea at the broad, green delta in Egypt. The Nile’s ...

Children swim in the Nile to reach their home after flooding in Dalhamo Village, near the Delta city of Ashmoun, in Menoufia Governorate, Egypt, October 5, 2025. Egypt's Prime Minister Mostafa ...

From the Nile to the Mississippi, sinking land is compounding sea-level rise. A new study pinpoints where deltas are dropping ...

Early one morning in Cairo, volunteers paddle their kayaks across the Nile, fishing out garbage from the mighty waterway that gave birth to Egyptian civilisation but now faces multiple threats.

The saga begins with Mahmoud Saïd (1897–1964), a leading figure of Egyptian modernity. Under his brush, the Nile undergoes a ...

The findings point to heightening near-term flood risk for more than 236 million people, but river delta flooding is an issue of global food security as well. “Billions of people rely on the food that ...

"Originally published by Bloomsbury, London, in 2014." It was Herodotus who first called Egypt "the gift of the river." Now renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us along the Nile to reveal how ...