Sydney Water is proposing to add purified recycled drinking water – effluent that has been highly treated back to drinking standard – to Sydney’s tap water supply.

Sea level rise will become unmanageable at just 1.5C of global heating and lead to “catastrophic inland migration”, the scientists behind a new study have warned.

Absent protective measures such as sea walls, an additional 20 centimeters (7.8 inches) of sea level rise—the width of a letter-size sheet of paper—by 2050 would cause some $1 trillion in ...

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 ...

The last report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published in 2021, predicted 1 to 2 metres of sea level rise over many centuries if the rise in temperature was limited to ...

Podcaster Show PlayerYorktown took second place on the East Coast and had a rise rate of 5.41 millimeters in 2024, followed by Solomons Island, Maryland, at 5.21 millimeters in a year. The Gulf ...

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 ...

LOWCOUNTRY, S.C. (WCIV) — Here in the Lowcountry, we are surrounded by water. At least half of Charleston is made up of marshes, creeks and coastal waters. But lately, water seems to be creeping ...

Many Antarctic Ice Sheet computer simulations — or models — that predict sea level rise ignore the effects of subglacial water and are probably underestimating its impact, Zhao says.

One-third of Australia’s coastal terrestrial aquaculture at risk from sea level rise. Aquaculture Science and Management, 2025; 2 (1) DOI: 10.1186/s44365-025-00009-3 ...

NASA reported global sea levels rose more than expected in 2024. Hotter oceans is primary reason. Here's how sea level rise impacts Charleston and the SC coast.