Nile River and delta.
River delta of the Ganges in Bangladesh.
2009Aug21: “The [Nile] Delta is a kind of Bangladesh story,” says Dr Rick Tutwiler, director of the American University in Cairo’s Desert Development Centre. “You’ve got a massive population, overcrowding, a threat to all natural resources from the pressure of all the people, production, pollution, cars and agricultural chemicals. And on top of all that, there’s the rising sea. It’s the perfect storm” (UK Guardian, 2009).
Reference: UK Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/aug/21/climate-change-nile-flooding-farming
Image Description: (top image) Nile River and delta as seen from space by the MODIS sensor on the Terra satellite. 2003Feb5. Credit: Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC. Image Location: Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nile_River_and_delta_from_orbit.jpg Image Permission: This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA. (bottom image) River delta of the Ganges in Bangladesh. Image Location: Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ganges_88.08434E_21.69247N.jpg Image Permission: This image is in the public domain because it is a screenshot from NASA’s globe software World Wind using a public domain layer, such as Blue Marble, MODIS, Landsat, SRTM, USGS or GLOBE.
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