The latest research from leading institutions paints a sobering picture of America's coastal future. 3 m by 2050, increasing ...

Those beautiful Hawaiian beaches are apparently disappearing. Rising sea levels paired with recent storm surges have been causing faster-than-usual erosion along beaches and shorelines. According to a ...

Over the next decade, rising oceans are poised to redraw the edges of some of the world’s best known coastal cities, turning ...

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 ...

For years, endangered leatherbacks and green turtles have emerged onto Braamspunt beach to lay their eggs. But the land spit at the tip of the Suriname river estuary is rapidly vanishing as erosion, ...

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 ...

A slow-moving crisis of sinking land and rising water is playing out along America's coastline. In the past 100 years, sea levels have climbed about a foot or more in some U.S. cities – 11 inches in ...

Few countries in the world are considered more vulnerable to the impact of rising sea levels and climate change than Bangladesh, a nation of 175 million people squeezed into a landmass the size of ...

Los Angeles County has announced it would spend $5.1 million to restore and protect a number of beaches that have been disappearing at an alarming rate in part due to rising sea levels, according to a ...

Florida's coastal landscape would dramatically change if sea levels rise over a certain level, a projection map by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows. The map reveals how ...

When former Grist fellow Joseph Lee tells people that his family is from Martha’s Vineyard, an island off the coast of Massachusetts, they invariably look confused about what it means to be from a ...