The Outer Banks have lost roughly 675 feet of shoreline since 1987, according to AccuWeather. A 2023 study from Dare County ...

Global warming could increase the sea level in New York City by almost three feet, according to Climate Central. That would put much of Queens, Brooklyn, and lower Manhattan under water. It may be too ...

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 ...

Monique Bennema wades into the water as she prepares to measure the king tide during Florida International University's Sea Level Solutions Day at Grove Park on Wednesday in Miami. ©Photo by Matias J.

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 ...

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 ...

Sea level rise could put more than 100 million buildings across the Global South at risk of regular flooding if fossil fuel emissions are not curbed quickly, according to a new McGill-led study ...

Six beachfront homes collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean in less than 24 hours as hurricanes passed offshore. Five of the homes fell in Buxton between 2 p.m. and 2:45 p.m. on Tuesday, according to the ...

How high will the ocean rise under climate change? By 2050, scientists have a pretty good idea. But why does it matter where you live? And what can humans do to slow it down? NPR climate correspondent ...