In the era of climate change, as rising temperatures drive glacial melt and ocean-water expansion, sea level rise ...

The sea level along California’s coast will increase by about a foot by mid-October due to El Niño driving water north from South and Central America.

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) — For years, residents of this Southern California beach town could walk a mile along a stretch of cream-colored sand and dip their toes in the waves lapping ashore. That ...

Ghost forests, the cemetery-like groupings of dead trees killed by saltwater intrusion, have become haunting symbols of sea level rise overtaking land along the Mid-Atlantic coast. But a new study ...

The world, including the U.S., agreed that rising seas will not change national borders even as small islands disappear.

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 ...

The world’s oceans are rising at an accelerating pace, and scientists now say they can fully explain what’s driving it. Warming seawater is the biggest factor, while melting glaciers and polar ice ...

In western Alaska, several long-term environmental changes have amplified its recent storms: warmer ocean waters, declining ...

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 ...

A version of this story appeared in the CNN Weather newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The sea level along California’s coast will increase by about a foot by mid-October due ...