In 2024, the hottest year in recorded history, sea levels rose at a rate 35% more than expected, according to a new report from NASA. The space agency explained on its website that the acceleration of ...

Ancient shorelines, buried peat and rocks locked beneath Greenland’s ice are all pointing in the same direction: when the climate warms, seas do not just creep higher, they can lurch upward. The ...

Last year, sea levels along the Boston coastline were, on average, higher than at any other point in recorded history: about 14 inches above levels in 1921, when records began. “This hasn’t stopped or ...

Sea level rise — mostly due to glacial melt largely caused by anthropogenic climate change — has been a hot button topic for the past half century. But historically defining the basic parameters of ...

Sea-level rise changes coastlines, putting homes at risk, as Summer Haven, Fla., has seen. Aerial Views/E+/Getty Images Shaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of ...

In the mid-fifteen-hundreds, a Swedish peasant named Nils lived on an island called Iggön in the Baltic Sea. He was known to his neighbors as Rich Nils, apparently because of the plenitude of fish in ...

Rising sea levels, largely caused by climate change, could disrupt the lives of millions of Americans in the coming decades. The U.S.'s extensive coastline, which is densely populated, will be ...

Picture standing at the water's edge, watching waves creep higher with each passing year. That's the reality for millions living in coastal communities around the globe right now. 4 mm above 1993 ...

Rising sea levels are displacing fisherfolk in Pakistan’s coastal areas, forcing them to move to higher ground, such as Karachi, where they now face saltwater intrusion and other climate impacts. For ...

Between rising sea levels from the climate crisis, a history of nuclear testing causing radioactive pollution and population displacement, the Marshall Islands face numerous threats. Now, the country ...