After analyzing 385 studies related to coastal areas and sea level rise, scientists found a significant discrepancy between geoid measurements and actual sea levels, especially in the global south.

A lot of past research has used flawed methodology to estimate current coastal water levels, according to a new study ...

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

A systematic review of nearly 400 coastal hazard studies has found that the vast majority relied on flawed assumptions about where sea level actually sits, leading to significant underestimates of ...

Rising temperatures are causing sea levels to rise around the world, putting millions at risk of severe flooding and coastal erosion. But in Greenland, the opposite is happening. Researchers at the ...

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 ...

For around 2,000 years, global sea levels varied little. That changed in the 20th century. They started rising and have not stopped since — and the pace is accelerating. Scientists are scrambling to ...

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.

The claim: Sydney area sea levels down since 1914, which represents 'the true ocean rise story' An Oct. 27 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a document that makes a series of claims ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Sea levels rose even higher than anticipated ...