The 2018 edition of the United Nations World Water Development Report stated that nearly
6 billion peoples will suffer from clean water scarcity by 2050. This is the result of increasing …

Land degradation has become one of the biggest environmental challenges human society
is currently facing, which is why understanding the global pattern of this land crisis is …

Climate-induced sea-level rise and vertical land movements, including natural and human-
induced subsidence in sedimentary coastal lowlands, combine to change relative sea levels …

Coastal subsidence contributes to relative sea-level rise and exacerbates flooding hazards,
with the at-risk population expected to triple by 2070. Natural processes of vertical land …

Coastal land can be lost at rapid rates due to relative sea-level rise (RSLR) resulting from
local land subsidence. However, the comparative severity of local land subsidence is …

Groundwater overdraft gives rise to multiple adverse impacts including land subsidence and
permanent groundwater storage loss. Existing methods are unable to characterize …

Many major river deltas in the world are subsiding and consequently become increasingly
vulnerable to flooding and storm surges, salinization and permanent inundation. For the …

Abstract The Mekong River Delta in Vietnam, is concerned by numerous microplastic-related
issues such as a lack of wastewater treatment facilities and mismanagement of plastic waste …

As international concern for the survival of deltas grows, the Mekong River delta, the world's
third largest delta, densely populated, considered as Southeast Asia's most important food …

The eastern Mediterranean basin is witnessing increased storm activity impacting populous
urban coastal areas that historically were not prone to catastrophic flooding. In the fall of …