When tourists talk about glamorous Miami Beach, they probably don’t mention that weird moldy smell that floats around, or the small lakes gathered on Purdy Avenue when it hasn’t even rained. Many ...
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 ...
Highlighting seas that are rising at an accelerating rate, especially in the far more vulnerable Pacific island nations, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued yet another climate SOS to the ...
Cutting emissions in line with the 1.5°C warming limit, rather than following current climate policies, could curb long-term ...
Understanding past sea level change is necessary for predicting future sea level rise. The main contributors to sea level variability are ice sheet change, ocean water temperature change (e.g., ...
FONGAFALE, Tuvalu - Tuvalu and its 11,000 people, who live on nine atolls scattered across the Pacific, are running out of time. Fukanoe Laafai would like to start a family. But she is struggling 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, ...
Scientists project that sea levels around parts of Florida could rise as much as eight feet over the coming decades. The majority of Miami-Dade County is roughly six feet above the ocean today. And ...
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 ...
As rising sea levels rapidly reshape North Carolina’s coastline, communities are facing devastating erosion, leaving homes to crumble into the sea. Homeowners are grappling with challenges and costly ...