Norfolk, Virginia, currently has the fastest rising sea level on the East Coast, while Wilmington is projected to see a 1.77-foot rise by 2050. Increased flooding, even on sunny days, is impacting ...

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 ...

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 up ...

NASA releases 33 years of weekly sea level data, revealing key rises and falls for coastal areas around the world that are ...

Scientists now estimate that more than 200 million people could be living on land that will fall below future coastal high-tide lines, based on new elevation data published in Nature Communications.

For around 2,000 years, global sea levels varied little. That changed in the 20th century. They started rising and have not stopped since — and the pace is accelerating. Scientists are scrambling to ...

Side-by-side photographs of a harbour in northern England seemingly showing water lower this decade than 130 years ago do not disprove that warming global temperatures are affecting sea levels, ...

Africa's coastlines are under growing threat as sea levels climb faster than ever, driven by decades of global warming caused ...

The world’s ice sheets are on course for runaway melting, leading to multiple feet of sea level rise and “catastrophic” migration away from coastlines, even if the world pulls off the miraculous and ...

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 ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Rising sea levels are now threatening Rapa Nui’s Moai statues. According to a Cultural Heritage study by students at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, by 2080, the rising sea ...