Coastal floods are linked to climate change and sea level rise
Extreme floods that once swamped coastal communities only rarely are becoming far more common as climate change caused…
The majority of Tuvalu has applied to relocate to Australia to escape climate change. What happens now?
A Pacific island nation on the front line of the climate change threat is building land to try…
Scientists make concerning discovery after spotting massive blue object in satellite images — here’s what they saw
A vivid blue iceberg drifting from Antarctica is drawing scientific attention, as meltwater spreading across its surface shows…
‘It’s going to be a problem’
Rising sea levels are slowly and quietly reshaping coastlines, threatening communities built along and around them. One institution,…
‘What happened in the past is likely to recur’
Researchers analyzing ancient seafloor sediments discovered that West Antarctica’s ice sheet has collapsed and regrown several times over…
Antarctica’s ice sheet losses could rebound — if history can repeat itself
Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next…
‘Even the animals seen confused’
Glacial ice melt is doing more than contributing to rising sea levels. It’s disrupting the balance of ecosystems,…
Study finds thousands of hazardous sites in the US risk flooding from sea level rise
If heat-trapping pollution from burning coal, oil and gas continues unchecked, thousands of hazardous sites across the United…
North American ice sheets drove most of the sea-level rise after the last ice age
When the planet was heating up at the end of the last Ice Age, ice-melt flooded out by…
Residents issue warning about worsening crisis at popular tourist destination: ‘It’s becoming inevitable’
Residents of a famed Colombian port city hope to maintain their community, even as rising sea levels and…
Scientists make alarming discovery after attaching GoPro cameras to polar bears in the Arctic — here’s what’s happening
The large amounts of melting sea ice due to rising global temperatures are impacting polar bears’ ability to…