Sandy beaches account for approximately a third of the world's ice-free coastlines. These sandy shorelines are responsible ...

Global coastal sea levels are on average 1 foot higher than previously assumed, a new report finds, raising alarms the world ...

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 ...

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

An El Niño event combined with other weather phenomena led to record level sea rise in African oceans during 2023 and 2024.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After analyzing 385 studies related to coastal areas and sea level rise, scientists found a significant discrepancy between ...

Hundreds of global and regional studies on sea level rise and coastal flooding may have underestimated sea levels by an average of 20 to 30 centimeters. The findings suggest that the toll of future ...