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 ...

The Paraná doesn’t empty into an ocean or sea, like the Mississippi and the Ganges and the Amazon and all the world’s other great deltas do. The Paraná is the only river delta on earth that ...

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 ...