In the short term scientists are still uncertain about how fast and how high seas will rise. Estimates have repeatedly been too conservative. Global warming affects sea level in two ways.

Under a low-emissions scenario that corresponds to approximately 2°C warming above pre-industrial levels, global sea level ...

Oceans are rising, and as the world gets hotter, it's happening more quickly. The rate of sea level rise in 2024 was faster than NASA scientists were expecting. The Post and Courier’s Rising ...

In San Rafael in Northern California, a rise of just one foot could inundate entire neighborhoods, according to NOAA’s Sea Level Rise Viewer, the Daily Mail reported. If the ocean creeps up by ...

"Maryland is one of the most vulnerable states in the United States, and Chesapeake Bay in particular has a lot of low-lying ...

New geological data has given more insight into the rate and magnitude of global sea level rise following the last ice age, about 11,700 years ago. This information is of great importance to ...

Sarah Kaplan and Bonnie Jo Mount traveled to four islands of the Seychelles and a geochemistry lab in Madison, Wis. to document how fossil corals are helping scientists predict future sea level rise.

New research on historical sea-level rise will give scientists new knowledge into how global warming will affect the earth’s rapidly melting ice sheets. Source: Deltares, Utrecht University, TNO ...

Until now, the rates and extent of sea level rise during the early Holocene were poorly understood because of a lack of sound geological data from this period. Researchers from Deltares, the ...

home to some of the most rapid rates of erosion and sea level rise on the East Coast. Not long after, another house fell. And then another. Wave after wave, the ocean had clawed away at the beach ...

SINGAPORE – Researchers from Singapore will update sea-level rise projections for the Republic and the region by taking into account what are known as “black swan” events. These refer to ...