Many coastal maps start from the wrong sea-level baseline, and correcting the error could mean millions more are vulnerable ...

Global sea levels may rise faster than previously expected, suggests a new study in Nature Communications. The reason is that ...

In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I take a brief look at the connection between sea level rise, ...

Sea-level rise, one of the first identified impacts of climate change, poses a serious risk to a large part of the world’s population who live in coastal areas. There is a pressing need to understand ...

Every summer you go down the shore, but lately you’ve begun to notice that the beach seems narrower each time you visit. Is that the sea level rising, or is the sand just being swept away? Speaking of ...

In one part of Orange, Texas, cars were submerged in waist-deep water after Hurricane Laura brought storm surge into the area on Aug. 27, 2020. The gradual sinking of coastal land areas has been a ...

Decades of land reclamation left the city vulnerable to flooding. Now Boston faces harder questions: how to finance flood ...

New Jersey is likely to see between 2.2 and 3.8 feet of sea-level rise by 2100 if the current level of global carbon emissions continue, but seas could rise by as much as 4.5 feet if ice-sheet melt ...

Scientists warn that no adaptation measure can sustain Venice as rising sea levels threaten to swallow the city.

If you’ve walked through ankle-deep water in Waikiki during heavy storms, its possible that you’ve come in contact with ...

All across the world, sea levels are expected to rise in response to climate change. However, for the state of Delaware, sea level rise is especially concerning due to the state’s flat topography, low ...