Large changes in global sea level, fueled by fluctuations in ice sheet growth and decay, occurred throughout the last ice age ...

Sea levels are rising faster than in 4,000 years, putting coastal cities like Shanghai at growing risk of flooding and ...

The timing of emissions reductions, even more so than the rate of reduction, will be key to avoiding catastrophic thresholds for ice-melt and sea-level rise, according to a new Cornell University ...

According to new research, Shanghai appears to be sinking faster than previously believed. Scientists from the UK, China, and ...

A study of geological records reveals that sea levels are rising at their fastest rate in 4,000 years, underscoring the ...

When the planet was heating up at the end of the last Ice Age, ice-melt flooded out by glaciers made oceans rise. Scientists ...

Recent NASA research has confirmed that the world’s oceans are swallowing up land at a faster pace than previously thought. Using advanced satellite laser technology, scientists have tracked changes ...

Large changes in global sea level, fueled by fluctuations in ice sheet growth and decay, occurred throughout the last ice age, rather than just toward the end of that period.    The findings represent ...

In the Northern California Bay Area, the weather has never pulled its punches. Storms pound the shorelines, king tides swallow streets and wind-driven wildfires blast through the forests. But the ...

The saltwater burbled up — across roads and yards and parks, out of street drains and over the top of crumbling sea walls — a seeping nuisance that every year becomes more of threat for waterfront ...

Human water management contributes to sinking land across the globe, and it may also be responsible for an unexpected rise ...