As for BRICS’ expansion, Brazil’s ambassador to Russia says that his country calls for including more countries into the group. Rodrigo de Lima Baena Soares noted in a conversation with Izvestia that ...

Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use ...

As oil companies push for drilling on the Amazon coast, an underwater war silences the ocean’s most vocal creatures.

Explore the platform The extent of coastal flooding has increased over the past 20 years as a result of sea level rise, meaning 14 million more people worldwide now live in coastal communities with a ...

Asia remained the most disaster-impacted region in 2024, with climate-related hazards---floods, storms, droughts, and heatwaves---causing widespread human and economic losses ...

Rising seas The new study found sea levels are now rising on average twice as fast, at 4.3mm a year on average since 2019, up from 1.8mm a year at the turn of the 20th century.

China dominates the global rare earths industry—and it’s not even close. A fight is already underway to lay claim to this sunken island’s natural riches.

May 20 (UPI) -- Rising sea levels caused by man-made climate change will see hundreds of millions of people forced to flee inland from coasts even if the rise in the global temperature stays ...

In 2024, Norfolk took the top spot for the East Coast, measuring 5.6 millimeters of sea-level rise in a year, or about a quarter of an inch. The city is fourth among all coastal communities in the ...

"Sea level rise is caused primarily by two factors related to global warming: the added water from melting ice sheets and glaciers, and the expansion of seawater as it warms," the agency reports.

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).