and the river itself is the main highway for those traveling through the region. Macapá, on the north shore of the Amazon delta, is a city of half a million people, but there's not a single road ...

Quick: what’s the longest river in the world ... in a larger map Measuring river length is a surprisingly tricky proposition. Where does a river end? The mouth of the Amazon, for example ...

A vast floodplain 10 times the size of the Amazon delta existed ... this with seismic data to map the rock layers. The team found preserved sediments from a delta that existed 237 to 227 million ...

A river delta is, by definition, a place in flux — coastal land naturally sinks, and is naturally rebuilt by the flow of a vast river that carries in new sediment. Across the globe, from the ...