I see the next ten years as a stress test for coastal civilization: enough time for sea level rise to become impossible to ignore, but not enough for slow political systems to fully catch up. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock New federal mapping tools show that the Texas coast could face a major transformation if sea levels rise ...

SANTA CRUZ — The local nonprofit Save the Waves Coalition released a report Tuesday that shows how sea level rise could affect Santa Cruz County surf breaks and the local economy. “Surfing is more ...

A peer-reviewed study published in Nature on March 4, 2026, finds that up to 132 million more people worldwide may be exposed ...

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 ...

Researchers found that a majority of studies on coastal sea levels underestimated how high water levels are, and hundreds of millions of people are closer to peril than previously thought.

Humans are a coastal species. More than one in ten people in the world live within three miles of the shore, and about 40 ...

A shrimp trawler navigates a salt marsh in South Carolina, where commercial and recreational fishing generate more than $78 million and $213 million, respectively, each year. A new mapping tool will ...

With climate change comes rising sea levels, and that means many parts of Florida are expected to return to the seas. Thankfully, it doesn’t appear as though the entire state will get drowned out ...

Since Hampton Roads was settled, it has fought a tug-of-war with its surrounding waters. Nowhere is this more evident than at Naval Station Norfolk, the world’s largest naval base. Naval Station ...