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Last year was the hottest year on record, and now a recent NASA-led analysis shows that 2024 also marked an unexpected increase in sea level rise. While scientists had expected the rate of sea level ...

A new interactive map called the “Coastal Risk Finder” allows you to zoom into your neighborhood to see what water levels ...

But how much and how fast will sea level rise? To answer this question, scientists have come up with two fundamentally different approaches to model sea level rise. The first is physical models ...

and the rate of rise is getting faster and faster," said Josh Willis, a sea level researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in a statement. Warming oceans cause sea levels to go up ...

Almost half of global average temperature rise and a third of sea-level rise can be attributed to the “carbon majors,” the ...

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 ...

Is that the sea level rising, or is the sand just being swept away? Speaking of sea levels, you keep hearing that they rise higher every year — but how exactly is that measured? After all ...

In estuaries—the transitional zones between rivers and the sea—fresh and salt water are constantly battling for dominance. But due to climate change, the saltwater is gaining ground. New research by ...

Research led by the Union of Concerned Scientists reports that emissions from the world's largest fossil fuel and cement ...

A new analysis of ancient layers of peat at the bottom of the North Sea will help scientists more accurately project how much sea level will rise in the coming decades and centuries. The research ...