Here in the Lowcountry, we are surrounded by water. At least half of Charleston is made up of marshes, creeks and coastal ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. If everyone on Earth sat down in the ocean, how ...

Rising sea levels are forcing the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut to address the long-term sustainability of its campus.

Coastal models enhance understanding of future flooding frequency on atoll islands, paving the way to explore the limits of adaptation in the face of rising sea levels and climate change.

They are ghost forests: the haunting remains of what were once stands of cedar and pine. Since the late 19th century, an ever ...

An overlooked Antarctic water system could raise sea levels by more than 2 meters by 2300, computer simulations show.

Over the past two decades, satellite-based planetary observations have recorded rapid mass loss of Patagonian glaciers, ...

If humanity keeps on driving gasoline-powered vehicles and burning natural gas and coal to generate electricity, then we could potentially see even more sea level rise. And “two feet by 2060 ...

A new study found parts of Antartica could pass a tipping point for mass ice sheet losses as soon as 2050 – pushing sea ...

BUT THE ICE IS MELTING. FAST. THE GREENLAND ICE CAP IS NOW THE THE LARGEST CONTRIBUTOR TO GLOBAL SEA LEVEL RISE. IT’S OUTSTRIPPED THE GENERAL WARMING OF THE OCEAN, AND IT’S CONTRIBUTING MORE ...

A new interactive map called the “Coastal Risk Finder” allows you to zoom into your neighborhood to see what water levels will be like in 20 years, 30 years, 40 years and so on.

And the shift from forest to marsh has happened throughout periods of sea level rise in the past, says Marcelo Ardón, an ecosystem ecologist and biogeochemist at North Carolina State University ...