For around 2,000 years, global sea levels hardly varied. That changed in the twentieth century. Sea levels started rising and ...

Decades have passed since the start of the fight against climate change and the one vital objective remains the same: ...

A study in the journal Science concludes that glaciers will rapidly lose mass for decades and then continue melting at a ...

Major coastal high tide flooding, which is often destructive ... more resilience strategies in coastal areas, NOAA said global warming as a whole must be curbed to prevent the worst outcomes.

A team of geophysicists and atmospheric scientists at Princeton's NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and the ...

Rising seas will severely test humanity's resilience, even if we defy odds and cap global warming at the ambitious 1.5 degrees Celsius target, researchers said. | TAG24 ...

Rising sea levels due to human-caused warming will continue ... sea level rise and coastal flooding risks worldwide with maps that use the most advanced available global model of coastal elevations.

Even if global warming is capped at 1.5°C, catastrophic sea-level rise is inevitable, potentially displacing millions.

This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems ... for the bulk of global warming—could cover the cost, he says.

That warming ... can flood cities even far from the coasts. When these storms now come in on top of already higher sea levels, the waves and storm surge can dramatically increase coastal flooding.

That warming, hidden for years in data of ... thermal expansion of the water has increased flooding in low-lying coastal areas and put the future of island nations at risk. In the U.S., rising ...