When students checked the satellite images again in September, the island was completely submerged. Since 1993, the global average sea level rise has been just shy of 4 inches as of 2023, according to ...

Global ocean levels have risen about 6 cm (2.3 in) over the past two decades, matching models consistent with human-induced ...

Climate change increases sea levels through two main effects: melting ice increases the amount of water in the world’s oceans, and seawater expands as it absorbs excess heat trapped by greenhouse-gas ...

Sea-level rise caused by climate change poses a serious and often unpredictable threat to coastal forests, and new tools are ...

Researchers have found evidence that mangrove forests – which protect tropical and subtropical coastlines – are drowning in ...

Sea level rise and other factors cause coastal trees to die where they stand, and climate change is making matters worse.

A satellite hundreds of miles above Earth captured rare images of an atmospheric phenomenon that makes Antarctica glaciers ...

North Carolina’s bald cypress forests, with their distinctive reddish bark and unique “knees,” have long been a defining ...

A satellite orbiting hundreds of ... from the west Antarctic ice sheet to the Amundsen Sea. The smoky effect is caused by steam forming and rising as cold air moves across warmer water at the ...