Imagine the world without Antarctica's ice sheets. If Antarctica were to melt entirely, it would trigger an unprecedented rise in sea levels, potentially flooding vast swaths of the Earth. Antarctica ...

Coastal planners take heed: Newly uncovered evidence from fossil corals found on an island chain in the Indian Ocean suggests that sea levels could rise even more steeply in our warming world than ...

The president’s budget proposal would cripple NOAA’s capacity to provide data and services on sea level rise to Hampton Roads ...

Global sea levels rising twice as fast as they did last century, according to major scientific report Every measure of climate change is going in the wrong direction, and some of them faster than ...

Tuvalu, a tiny Pacific island nation, is on the verge of disappearing due to rising sea levels. With homes already flooding, ...

If Earth stays at its current levels of warming — below policymakers’ goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius — polar ice sheets may melt, causing seas to rise and displacing coastal communities, a ...

The researchers found that compact “scrub” mangroves, dominated by Rhizophora mangle, kept absorbing about 294 grams of ...

Searching for the source of these higher sea levels takes us to the poles. In a climate similar to today, the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets retreated, raising global sea level.

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have gained unique insight into the mechanisms behind the collapse of Antarctic ...

Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth's poles slightly away from the ...

A long-lost photo snapped from a Navy plane in 1966 has become the unlikely key to understanding how Antarcticas ...

Long-lost 1960s aerial photos let Copenhagen researchers watch Antarctica’s Wordie Ice Shelf crumble in slow motion. By ...