LOS ANGELES, United States — Sea levels in California are set to rise by as much as a foot (30 centimeters) in the coming ...

The sea level along California’s coast will increase by about a foot by mid-October due to El Niño driving water north from South and Central America.

In the era of climate change, as rising temperatures drive glacial melt and ocean-water expansion, sea level rise ...

Norfolk, Virginia, floods on sunny days now. Not during hurricanes or nor’easters, but on ordinary high tides that push saltwater through storm drains and across neighborhood streets. The city sits in ...

A team of NASA rocket scientists is developing autonomous underwater robots able to go where humans cannot, deep beneath Antarctica’s giant ice shelves. The robots’ task is to better understand how ...

Climate scientists like to keep their accounting books neat and balanced. As climate change alters energy flows all across the planet, which in turn causes effects like sea level rise, ice melt and ...

Fossil coral exposed in a limestone outcrop above present sea level in the Seychelles. Newly uncovered evidence from fossil corals suggests that sea levels could rise even more steeply in our warming ...

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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 ...

Most Hawaiʻi residents believe sea level rise is already affecting the state, expect major impacts within their lifetimes, and support significant changes to how and where development occurs. At the ...