The sea level along California’s coast will increase by about a foot by mid-October due to El Niño driving water north from South and Central America.

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) — For years, residents of this Southern California beach town could walk a mile along a stretch of cream-colored sand and dip their toes in the waves lapping ashore. That ...

Ghost forests, the cemetery-like groupings of dead trees killed by saltwater intrusion, have become haunting symbols of sea level rise overtaking land along the Mid-Atlantic coast. But a new study ...

A new ice sheet model developed by glaciologists at the University of California, Irvine and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

The world, including the U.S., agreed that rising seas will not change national borders even as small islands disappear.

The world’s oceans are rising at an accelerating pace, and scientists now say they can fully explain what’s driving it. Warming seawater is the biggest factor, while melting glaciers and polar ice ...

In western Alaska, several long-term environmental changes have amplified its recent storms: warmer ocean waters, declining ...

Sea levels along the world’s coastlines are much higher than previously assumed, more than 3 feet in some regions, according to new research, raising alarms that the world is underestimating the ...

A version of this story appeared in the CNN Weather newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The sea level along California’s coast will increase by about a foot by mid-October due ...