Another influential platform, Surging Seas, uses elevation, tides, and population data to highlight areas at risk from different combinations of sea level rise and storm surge. Its Introduction ...

Rising seas threaten millions of lives and livelihoods in coastal regions, along with untold swaths of vital infrastructure. A new study clarifies, for the first time, the overall danger rising sea ...

A new study published in Nature has found that sea levels along the world’s coastlines are already significantly higher than the majority of scientific assessments have assumed. The finding, which ...

Florida's future might be underwater, but how much and how soon is still a question. A map by Climate Central, a nonprofit organization of scientists and journalists, suggests that many coastal areas ...

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

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 ...

“Sea level rise is real,” said Noah Paoa, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology. “It’s not a distant ...

Many coastal maps start from the wrong sea-level baseline, and correcting the error could mean millions more are vulnerable ...

Satellite data shows the ground is sinking beneath many of the world’s biggest river delta cities, worsening flood and sea-level rise risks.

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.

King tide events usually occur May through July, according to UH Hawaiʻi and the Pacific Islands King Tides Project, which has been active since 2015. The project uses submitted photos to track ...