Rising sea levels reshape coastal areas faster than expected. Natural defenses fall behind and old seafloor maps hid important problems.

Amid fears that the rapid rise in sea levels triggered by climate change could wipe out their Pacific archipelago, the leaders of Kiribati are reportedly mulling over a complete population relocation, ...

Coastal flooding could bring US$500 billion of annual damages to the Asia-Pacific by the year 2100, if countries do not adapt ...

State officials on Friday released an updated interactive map designed to give Hawaii communities a clearer picture of how rising ocean levels could reshape shorelines in the coming decades. The State ...

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 ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ...

If heat-trapping pollution from burning coal, oil and gas continues unchecked, thousands of hazardous sites across the United States risk being flooded from sea level rise by the turn of the century, ...

Coastal flooding could bring $500bn of annual damages to the Asia-Pacific by the year 2100, if countries do not adapt to rising sea levels.