For SIDS, rising seas threaten the extinction of entire communities, potentially displacing populations from lands inhabited ...

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

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

As sea levels rose around this low-lying island nation, soil salinity increased beyond what even the salt-tolerant mangrove ...

One island of an archipelago far north of Russia has disappeared, satellite images show. Alexandra Barymova Lomonosov Moscow ...

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 ...

details how satellite imagery may help identify forested areas that are being transformed into marshes and open water by sea-level rise, a process known as regime change. Marcelo Ardón ...

Scientists have attributed the mass 'dieback' of mangrove trees on the Maldivian islands to increased salinity — salt ...

A satellite orbiting hundreds of miles above Earth ... for ice flowing from the west Antarctic ice sheet to the Amundsen Sea. The smoky effect is caused by steam forming and rising as cold air moves ...

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