NEW ORLEANS -- Mississippi River ships and barges carry over 500 million tons of cargo through the Southwest Pass shipping channel at the river's end to reach major ports that handle 18% of U.S.
The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) rivers carry a massive sediment load that feeds the world’s largest depositional system: the GBM megadelta. The mass of sediment transported annually by the GBM ...
New research shows that the increasing vulnerability of the Mekong delta to floods, salt intrusion and erosion is caused by insufficient sediment in the river not climate-induced rise in sea levels.
Globally, deltaic wetlands sequester large volumes of terrestrial and marine-derived organic carbon. Diminishing sediment supply via river diversions, dams, and/or sea level rise threatens this stored ...
This penological study characterizes the nature of various mixtures of terrigenous and carbonate sedimentary sequences of Late Pleistocene to Holocene age along the northwestern margin of the Nile ...
SOC TRANG, Vietnam, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Standing on the bank of the Mekong River, Tran Van Cung can see his rice farm wash away before his very eyes. The paddy's edge is crumbling into the delta. Just ...
Louisiana officials have canceled another major coastal restoration project — the Mid-Breton Sediment Diversion on the east ...
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