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 ...

Decades of land reclamation left the city vulnerable to flooding. Now Boston faces harder questions: how to finance flood ...

One of the most certain and intractable problems associated with climate change is sea level rise. According to a report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, average global sea levels ...

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

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 ...

Almost all research on the impacts of future sea-level rise has assumed today’s sea levels are lower than they actually are due to a “methodological blind spot”. That means flooding and erosion will ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of people who could be displaced in U.S. coastal regions due to rising sea levels this century as a result of climate change is much higher than previously thought, ...

Sea levels along the world’s coastlines are much higher than previously assumed, more than 3 feet in some regions, according to new research, raising alarms that the world is underestimating the ...