The world’s oceans are rising at an accelerating pace, and scientists now say they can fully explain what’s driving it. Warming seawater is the biggest factor, while melting glaciers and polar ice ...

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 ...

Most people picture sea level rise as something like filling a bathtub: water goes in, the surface rises evenly, and every coastline faces the same fate. The reality is far more complicated and, in ...

A new study led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) provides the most comprehensive observational analysis yet ...

From the San Diego-Tijuana border to Humboldt Bay, here are seven original audio stories that share the perspectives of people and communities dealing with flooding, coastal erosion, pollution and ...

Global sea levels have not continued to rise at the rates predicted by many scientists — and there is no evidence that climate change has contributed to any such acceleration, a new first-of-its-kind ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from the poles. But ...

With continued ocean and atmospheric warming, sea levels will likely rise for many centuries at rates higher than that of the current century. In the United States, almost 40 percent of the population ...