The science behind a 2035 coastal tipping point Global sea level is not rising in a straight, gentle line. Warmer oceans expand, land ice melts, and in many deltas and coastal plains the ground itself ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from the poles. But ...

A pioneering study has revealed that by the turn of the next century, at least half a million more people in the UK will be ...

The world’s oceans are rising at an accelerating pace, and scientists now say they can fully explain what’s driving it. Warming seawater is the biggest factor, while melting glaciers and polar ice ...

As the earth heats up due to the massive, ongoing anthropogenic (human-caused) release of greenhouse gases, the world’s oceans are absorbing a significant amount of that excess heat. Warm water ...

Global sea levels have not continued to rise at the rates predicted by many scientists — and there is no evidence that climate change has contributed to any such acceleration, a new first-of-its-kind ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new research project is looking into the possibility of reflooding the Qattara Depression, a massive low-lying desert area in Egypt, to help ...

Along California’s 1,000‑mile shoreline, a new generation of maps is turning an abstract climate threat into something uncomfortably specific: street‑by‑street projections of which neighborhoods could ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from the poles. But ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from the poles. But ...