Sea-level rise is one of the most visible signs of climate change, one that is threatening low-lying coastal communities ...

The Growing Threat to Coastal Salt Marshes Coastal salt marshes buffer shorelines, filter nutrients, and store carbon, but ...

Around 14,500 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age, melting continental ice sheets drove a sudden and cataclysmic sea level rise of up to 65 feet in just 500 years or less. Despite the scale ...

As the global temperature increases, Earth's oceans are experiencing a huge shift. In addition to commonly known effects, such as melting of ice caps and thermal expansion, there is an invisible ...

WASHINGTON — The Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine today announced an award of more than $7.3 million to support four interdisciplinary ...

For millions of people around the world, rising sea levels are already reshaping economies, livelihoods and cultures.

Rob DeConto and his research group of postdocs and grad students study polar climate change, the role of glaciers and ice sheets in past and future sea-level change, and the impacts of sea-level rise ...

What impact can sea-level rise have on extreme floods in the future? This is what a recent study published in Coastal Futures hopes to address as a team of researchers will investigate long-term ...

The rising earth beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet will likely become a major factor in future sea level rise, a new study suggests. The rising earth beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet will likely become a ...

Edit: Two percentages reflecting sea level rise probability were updated. HANSVILLE -- Concrete bulkheads bracket the shoreline of waterfront homes in Hansville like backyard fencing on any other land ...