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

Our changing climate is impacting our planet in a huge number of ways—ranging from powerful hurricanes and intense droughts to invasive species and ocean acidification—but there might be another ...

Recent research conducted by an international team of scientists from Utrecht University, the UK, and the US has resulted in a significant advancement in the understanding of sea level changes.

The Sentinel-6B is the second of two satellites in a $1 billion program to monitor sea levels over a full decade.

Consequences, they say, collect in low places. A new NASA analysis, using data collected from different specialized satellites, reports that sea levels rose more than expected in 2024. But as any ...

Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use sediments and fossils to roughly reconstruct how sea levels changed over ...

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

Hypothetical questions, like what would happen if everyone on Earth went for an ocean swim at once, are fun to think about. And using math, you can get pretty close to a real answer. Let’s start by ...