A new study in the journal Nature says most sea level rise research may have underestimated coastal water heights by an average of 1 foot.
A lot of past research has used flawed methodology to estimate current coastal water levels, according to a new study ...
Many coastal maps start from the wrong sea-level baseline, and correcting the error could mean millions more are vulnerable ...
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.
A study published in Nature on March 4, 2026, found that more than 99% of coastal hazard assessments conducted over the past 16 years used flawed sea-level data, meaning actual ocean levels are ...