This sea level rise "would severely disrupt the essential facilities that communities depend on," Shangjia Dong told Newsweek ...

NOAA's 10‑foot map visualizes cities at risk. New research flags thousands of hazardous sites vulnerable by 2100.

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 ...

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 ...

Sea levels along the United States coast are rising faster than they did in the past, and the change is not subtle.

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 ...

Research from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution finds the rate of U.S. coastal sea level rise has more than doubled in ...

A May 2005 NASA image of the ocean break-off point of the Helheim Glacier in southeast Greenland, one of two major ice-sheets that a new study published Tuesday warns is in danger of rapid retreat ...

Limiting global warming to 1.5°C above the pre-industrial baseline won’t be enough to stop sea levels from rising by several metres over the coming centuries, according to a review of all the latest ...

A 10-foot sea level rise would leave a significant number of U.S. coastal cities "uninhabitable," J. Derek Loftis told Newsweek.

Shaina Sadai has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the Hitz Family Foundation. Ambarish Karmalkar receives funding from National Science Foundation. When polar ice sheets melt, ...

Florida is one of the states that will be the most significantly impacted by a 10-foot rise in sea levels, the NOAA map shows.