Amelia Paszkowski
Coastal deltas are amongst the most densely populated places on Earth. More than 500 million people live in and around deltas, equivalent to 7% of the human population on 1% of the global land area. Yet, over 70% of the world’s largest delta systems are under threat from rising sea levels, subsidenc...
Amelia Paszkowski, S. L. Goodbred, Edoardo Borgomeo, M. Shah Alam Khan et al.
<p>The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) rivers deliver the greatest sediment flux to the world’s oceans, generating the Earth’s largest delta system, which is home to over 170 million people. Despite its scale and complexity, the GBM delta system remains a re...