Humans and sea lions at La Jolla Cove on Oct. 8, 2024. The area faces some of the highest risks of sea-level rise in California. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) For decades, California has been ...

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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new study suggests that the scientific community has been broadly misrepresenting sea level rise, especially in coastal areas of the global south, ...

Almost all research on the impacts of future sea-level rise has assumed today’s sea levels are lower than they actually are due to a “methodological blind spot”. That means flooding and erosion will ...

Researchers found that a majority of studies on coastal sea levels underestimated how high water levels are, and hundreds of millions of people are closer to peril than previously thought. By Sachi ...

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 study ...