With rising sea levels becoming a reality for many parts of the globe, an interactive map from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gives residents in coastal communities and further ...

Shaina Sadai has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the Hitz Family Foundation. Ambarish Karmalkar receives funding from National Science Foundation. When polar ice sheets melt, ...

New geological data has given more insight into the rate and magnitude of global sea level rise following the last ice age, about 11,700 years ago. This information is of great importance to ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series of stories exploring the NOAA’s new Sea Level Rise Viewer. Like much of the eastern seaboard, a new tool that predicts how future sea rise may change the ...

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 ...

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 on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use sediments and fossils to roughly reconstruct how sea levels changed over ...