Communities adapt to rising seas 08:34. Our sea levels will remain elevated for thousands of years. Scientists around the world agreed on that in last week's U.N. report about climate change ...

Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay is slowly disappearing as sea rises and erosion hits the shoreline. The population has ...

A team of 60 international scientists report that by early 2028 society will have emitted enough greenhouse gases that the ...

Oceans last year reached their highest levels in three decades — with the rate of global sea level rise increasing around 35 percent higher than expected, according to a NASA-led analysis ...

The two dashed lines mark Cape Hatteras. and the Florida Keys. (Sönke Dangendorf, ... Sea level rise along the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts from the tide gauge data (1920-2022). (a) ...

Compared to sea levels in 2000, the "Intermediate" scenario for the U.S. below, which projects 1.3 feet of sea level rise by 2050 and several feet by 2100, is a world warmed by around 2 degrees C ...

A new study ranked Savannah third out of 32 coastal cities for its rate of sea-level rise. ... is only going to impact that spot where the ocean meets the shore or our beaches," said Mark Risse, ...

A vast array of ancient evidence — including ice cores, fossils, deep sea sediments and even octopus DNA — allowed the researchers to reconstruct how this sea-level rise unfolded. For example ...

Even if the global temperature overshoots the 1.5 degree mark, ... Sea level rise of several inches per decade would likely overwhelm adaptation efforts by many coastal communities in the U.S., ...

In England, sea level was a hundred feet below a mark on St. John’s Church in Liverpool—until the datum was changed to one averaged at a certain dock at the mouth of the River Mersey, some ...

Sea level rise has accelerated in recent years, ... Still, by 2300 — a century short of Trump’s 400-year mark — scientists project that relative to 1995–2014, ...