Sea levels are rising faster than in 4,000 years, putting some of the world's largest cities at growing risk of flooding and sinking.

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

We found that for a few hours when the tide went down and the seagrasses were in very shallow water in tide pools, the water temperature went up to about 41°C. “That’s really, really hot. When I put ...

Many of the world’s coastal risk maps begin with a simple assumption: the ocean starts at zero. But new research suggests that this baseline may already be wrong. Scientists analyzing hundreds of ...

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

ALMATY – The water level of the Caspian Sea along Kazakhstan’s coastline continues to decline, according to the country’s Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, reported the Tengrinews agency on ...

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 ...

Rising seas increase the risk of coastal flooding, putting tens of millions of people in the United States and hundreds of millions worldwide at risk. About 40% of the world’s population lives within ...

The world has always gravitated towards the sea. Ports built trade, rivers carried fertile soil to the coast, and cities rose where land met water. Today nearly ...

Rising sea levels caused by climate change may be significantly higher than previously thought, according to a new study, which says a "methodological blind spot" led researchers to underestimate ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The study says climate change’s rising seas may ...

When most people think about climate change, their minds jump to increasing global temperatures, melting polar ice caps, and rising sea levels — and the fact that humanity sucks at curtailing the ...