I see the next ten years as a stress test for coastal civilization: enough time for sea level rise to become impossible to ignore, but not enough for slow political systems to fully catch up. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sea-level rise changes coastlines, putting homes at risk, as Summer Haven, Fla., has seen. Aerial Views/E+/Getty Images When polar ...

New Jersey is likely to see between 2.2 and 3.8 feet of sea-level rise by 2100 if the current level of global carbon emissions continue, but seas could rise by as much as 4.5 feet if ice-sheet melt ...

The fence around a "Building A Better Boston" project gets its feet wet as high tide during the snow storm floods across Long Wharf in 2020. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) New research from the Woods Hole ...

A study published in Nature shows that many of the world's major river deltas are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, potentially affecting hundreds of millions of people in these regions.

Rising sea levels could flood thousands of hazardous sites in marginalized communities mostly across seven states by 2100 should greenhouse gases continue to build up in the atmosphere, a new study ...

Sea-level rise changes coastlines, putting homes at risk, as Summer Haven, Fla., has seen. Aerial Views/E+/Getty Images Shaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of ...