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 ...

Global coastal sea levels are on average 1 foot higher than previously assumed, a new report finds, raising alarms the world is underestimating how much land and how many people will be affected by ...

Flooding could strike 5,500 sites and release contaminants.

If heat-trapping pollution from burning coal, oil and gas continues unchecked, thousands of hazardous sites across the United States risk being flooded from sea level rise by the turn of the century, ...

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.

Generating nearly $28.8 trillion in 2024, the U.S. economy is by far the largest in the world. In the coming decades, however, climate change will continually pose new challenges and risks to American ...

What impact can sea-level rise have on extreme floods in the future? This is what a recent study published in Coastal Futures hopes to address as a team of researchers will investigate long-term ...