Thanks to unusual ocean warming and increased meltwater from land-based ice, sea level rose nearly one-quarter of an inch in ...

In the coming years, however, Earth's melting ice sheets will play an outsized role in sea level rise. "The ice sheets are just getting warmed up," NASA's Willis previously told Mashable.

The losses in soil moisture already pose issues for farming, irrigation systems and critical water resources for humans. But ...

Zero elevation is defined as the isobar where the atmospheric pressure is equal to 610.5 Pa (for reference, “sea level” on earth has an atmospheric pressure of 101.5 kPa). Though seemingly ...

Past ice sheets have retreated rapidly, raising global sea level at rates >1 cm per year ... and interglacial states are driven by changes in Earth's orbit around the sun - called Milankovitch ...

The period continues to shape variations in sea level along the U.S. East Coast, Boston College researcher Carling Hay and colleagues report Along the East Coast of the United States, relative sea ...

Natural diamonds are forged in the Earth’s upper mantle ... 5–6 gigapascals—thousands of times greater than the pressure at sea level. Since the 1950s, scientists have replicated these ...

head of physical oceanography programs and the Integrated Earth System Observatory at NASA. The rate of annual sea level rise has more than doubled since the satellite record began in 1993 -- with ...