Research led by the Union of Concerned Scientists reports that emissions from the world's largest fossil fuel and cement ...

A new interactive map called the “Coastal Risk Finder” allows you to zoom into your neighborhood to see what water levels ...

But how much and how fast will sea level rise? To answer this question, scientists have come up with two fundamentally different approaches to model sea level rise. The first is physical models ...

By determining which ice sheets melted to create a colossal increase in sea levels 14,500 years ago, scientists hope to enable better predictions of how current ice melting will affect levels around ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — In January, FEMA released new flood maps showing that thousands of homes in Palm Beach County ...

and the rate of rise is getting faster and faster," said Josh Willis, a sea level researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in a statement. Warming oceans cause sea levels to go up ...

Global sea level will rise rapidly in the coming century; perhaps by more than 1 meter. This is primarily caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases (source: IPCC). Submerged peat ...

Sarah Kaplan and Bonnie Jo Mount traveled to four islands of the Seychelles and a geochemistry lab in Madison, Wis. to document how fossil corals are helping scientists predict future sea level rise.

A new analysis of ancient layers of peat at the bottom of the North Sea will help scientists more accurately project how much sea level will rise in the coming decades and centuries. The research ...

But it also affects sea-level rise and Earth’s rotation — datasets the research team used to better track water storage for decades longer than previous studies. “What we were looking for ...

Sea level rise has picked up the pace in recent years, as scientists have long predicted. Last year, sea levels around the world rose even faster than expected, the National Aeronautics and Space ...