A common question is simple: if climate change is real, why don’t coastlines look flooded already? This video looks directly ...

Sea-level rise changes coastlines, putting homes at risk, as Summer Haven, Fla., has seen. Aerial Views/E+/Getty Images Shaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of ...

Shaina Sadai has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the Hitz Family Foundation. Ambarish Karmalkar receives funding from National Science Foundation. When polar ice sheets melt, ...

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 ...

New Jersey is likely to see between 2.2 and 3.8 feet of sea-level rise by 2100 if the current level of global carbon emissions continue, but seas could rise by as much as 4.5 feet if ice-sheet melt ...

This image of South Maui comes from the updated State of Hawaii Sea Level Rise Viewer. The viewer is meant to help Hawaii residents, planners and officials better understand how their communities ...

Severe flooding hits Palisades Medical Center in Hudson County, N.J., on Oct. 30. (Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu/Getty Images via Inside Climate News) This story originally appeared on Inside Climate ...

Seven states along the coasts face the worst potential impact. Sea level rise caused by climate change could cause thousands of toxic sites in the U.S. to flood in the coming decades, according to new ...

As Trump Rolls Back Protections For Wetlands, New Jersey Maintains a Higher Standard How Alabama Power Has Left the ‘American Amazon’ at Risk Now in its 25th Year, a Historic Effort to Save the ...

It’s undeniable: The sea is rising. Property and infrastructure near and on the shoreline will be at risk of flooding. In Marin, that means San Rafael’s Canal neighborhood, Marin City and low-lying ...

Satellite data reveals sea-level rise has unfolded almost exactly as predicted by 1990s climate models, with one key underestimation: melting ice sheets. Researchers stress the importance of refining ...