Global coastal sea levels are on average 1 foot higher than previously assumed, a new report finds, raising alarms the world ...

A new study found that many of our predictions on sea-level rise have been predicated on inaccurate starting numbers. In many places, especially Southeast Asia and the Pacific, it's significantly ...

Climate change's rising seas may threaten tens of millions more people than scientists and government planners originally thought because of mistaken ...

European geographers have discovered that current forecasts of sea level rise significantly underestimate its impact—by as much as 20–30 centimeters. This discrepancy means that roughly 68 percent ...

A study published in Nature on March 4, 2026, found that more than 99% of coastal hazard assessments conducted over the past 16 years used flawed sea-level data, meaning actual ocean levels are ...

An analysis of coastal impact assessments revealed that the majority are not based on direct sea-level and land-elevation ...

Sea level rise could put more than 100 million buildings across the Global South at risk of regular flooding if fossil fuel emissions are not curbed quickly, according to a new McGill-led study ...

Fossil coral exposed in a limestone outcrop above present sea level in the Seychelles. Newly uncovered evidence from fossil corals suggests that sea levels could rise even more steeply in our warming ...

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 ...

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 ...