Researchers have released their 2024 U.S. sea level 'report cards,' providing updated analyses of sea level trends and projections for 36 coastal communities. Encompassing 55 years of historical data ...

Over the next decade, rising oceans are poised to redraw the edges of some of the world’s best known coastal cities, turning today’s “once in a century” floods into regular events and pushing salt ...

For around 2,000 years, global sea levels varied little. That changed in the 20th century. They started rising and have not stopped since — and the pace is accelerating. Scientists are scrambling to ...

Large cities face rising sea levels along the coast of California, despite the state's climate change defenses. New data from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science revealed that California's ...

Sea level rise caused by climate change could cause thousands of toxic sites in the U.S. to flood in the coming decades, according to new research. Under a high greenhouse gas emissions scenario, more ...

A slow-moving crisis of sinking land and rising water is playing out along America's coastline. In the past 100 years, sea levels have climbed about a foot or more in some U.S. cities – 11 inches in ...

Seven states along the coasts face the worst potential impact. Sea level rise caused by climate change could cause thousands of toxic sites in the U.S. to flood in the coming decades, according to new ...

If heat-trapping pollution from burning coal, oil and gas continues unchecked, thousands of hazardous sites across the United States risk being flooded from sea level rise by the turn of the century, ...

Flooding on the US Northeast coast has risen significantly as a critical network of Atlantic Ocean currents weakens, according to a new study — an alarming glimpse into the future as some scientists ...