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Yellow River Delta, 1989 and 2009
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Yellow River Delta, 1989 and 2009

Chinese engineers changed the main channel through the delta, changing the shape of the land at the river’s mouth.

Published Jan 27, 2010

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The Sculpting of Ebro Delta
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The Sculpting of Ebro Delta

Spain's Ebro Delta has recently experienced tremendous shape-shifting.

Published Mar 13, 2018

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Yellow River Delta, China
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Yellow River Delta, China

China’s Yellow River, or Huang He, travels through soft plateaus of silt, picking up a massive sediment load on its journey. The sediment carried by the river has reshaped China’s coast, adding several hundred square kilometers of land.

Published Jan 4, 2009

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Horton River Delta, Arctic Canada
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Horton River Delta, Arctic Canada

In the past few centuries, a river in northwestern Canada stopped wandering and assumed a more direct route to the sea.

Published Sep 4, 2012

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Zambezi River Delta
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Zambezi River Delta

One of Africa’s largest river systems reaches the Indian Ocean with less water and sediment today than in the past.

Published Dec 12, 2013

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Ebro River Delta, Northeastern Spain
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Ebro River Delta, Northeastern Spain

The Ebro River Delta, located along the eastern coast of Spain, is one of the largest wetland areas in the western Mediterranean region.

Published Jul 26, 2004

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Mississippi River Delta
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Mississippi River Delta

Time, weather, and human intervention have all shaped the Mississippi Delta in Louisiana, a giant bird’s foot shape protruding into the Gulf of Mexico. The Mississippi River deposits sediment into the ocean, and over 25 years, NASA Landsat satellites observed changes in the delta’s shape.

Published Oct 7, 2007

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The Largest River Delta in Europe
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The Largest River Delta in Europe

The Volga Delta has grown significantly over the past 130 years.

Published Nov 12, 2018

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Ural River Delta, Kazakhstan
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Ural River Delta, Kazakhstan

The Ural River is one of the two major rivers (the other is the Volga) that empty into the northern coast of the Caspian Sea, creating extensive wetlands. This image shows details of the Ural’s tree-like (or “digitate”) delta. This type of delta forms naturally when wave action is low, and sediment content in the river is high. New distributary channels form in the delta when the river breaches natural levees created by sediment deposition. The long main channel of the river in this image and several of the distibutary channels are too regular to be entirely natural, however. Like the famous Mississippi River delta in the United States, the Ural River delta has been significantly modified to reduce flooding and divert water.

Published Jun 6, 2005

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Green Lagoons No More
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Green Lagoons No More

With so much of its water diverted, the Colorado River Delta has dried out and lost much of its vegetation and wildlife.

Published Jun 18, 2020

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Snowfall on the Selenga River Delta, Russia
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Snowfall on the Selenga River Delta, Russia

The Selenga River Delta, which stretches out into Russia’s Lake Baikal, is carved by an intricate network of channels and levees and surrounded by marshlands.

Published Nov 28, 2011

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Boteti River, Botswana
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Boteti River, Botswana

In September 2010, water again flowed through this riverbed after several dry years.

Published Oct 8, 2010

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Colorado River Delta, Baja California
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Colorado River Delta, Baja California

The Colorado River is the largest watershed in the southwestern US, emptying into the Salton Trough before reaching the Sea of Cortez. Over the past 2-3 million years, river sediments built a delta that extends from the US-Mexico border for a distance of 87 miles (140 kilometers). However, today the Colorado River delta is undergoing significant erosion and diminishing in size due to the lack of sediment replenishment from upstream sources.

Published Jun 28, 2004

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Tsiribihina River, Madagascar
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Tsiribihina River, Madagascar

Muddy river flow builds up the delta and the coastline on the island’s west coast.

Published May 4, 2015

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Not Your Usual Flooding in Botswana
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Not Your Usual Flooding in Botswana

Water travels from the Angolan Highlands to Botswana each year, usually arriving in July. In 2012, the water showed up early, and overflowed into the Savuti River.

Published Jun 5, 2012

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