Melting of the Antarctic ice sheet due to global warming has long-term, irreversible societal impacts with important implications for people around the world. Spatial patterns of sea level change from ...

Melting ice sheets in North America played a far greater role in driving global sea-level rise at the end of the last ice age than scientists had thought, according to a Tulane University-led study ...

For around 2,000 years, global sea levels varied little. That changed in the 20th century. They started rising and have not stopped since — and the pace is accelerating. Scientists are scrambling to ...

The fence around a "Building A Better Boston" project gets its feet wet as high tide during the snow storm floods across Long Wharf in 2020. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) New research from the Woods Hole ...

Norfolk, Virginia, currently has the fastest rising sea level on the East Coast, while Wilmington is projected to see a 1.77-foot rise by 2050. Increased flooding, even on sunny days, is impacting ...

New Jersey is likely to see between 2.2 and 3.8 feet of sea-level rise by 2100 if the current level of global carbon emissions continue, but seas could rise by as much as 4.5 feet if ice-sheet melt ...

A slow-moving crisis of sinking land and rising water is playing out along America's coastline. In the past 100 years, sea levels have climbed about a foot or more in some U.S. cities – 11 inches in ...