On 28 November 1966, an American airplane flies over the Antarctic Peninsula just south of the southernmost tip of Chile. On ...

THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE in San Rafael’s poorest community are at a growing risk of being islanded by flood waters, with no drivable escape route. Central exit ...

Two images taken almost a century apart at Fort Denison in Sydney, Australia are being held up on social media as evidence that sea levels are not increasing -- contrary to what available science has ...

Today, the majority of the campus is in a FEMA-designated flood zone. Among the highest points — at just 14 feet above sea level — are the museum’s offices, which were originally the ...

Although the continent’s expansive layer of ice rises 13,400 feet above sea level near its center, the gentle slopes of that dome are imperceptible to the human eye.

Keti Bandar’s elevation is 1-2 meters (3-6.5 feet) above sea level, which is 8 m (26 ft) lower than Karachi’s coastal areas.

Meanwhile, NASA's records put 2024 at 1.47°C above pre-industrial, and according to NOAA it was 1.46°C above the 1850-1900 average, each just a proverbial hair's breadth from that milestone.

While it is highly unlikely that cities will go underwater in the near future, according to a NOAA oceanographer specialist, any rise that is two feet or more above the average high tide has the ...

A flood map showing water level of one meter above the high tide line, and how it could be reached through combinations of sea level rise, tides and storm surge.

A reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in the coming years will not be enough to prevent a 15-centimetre sea level rise for Pacific Island nations, according to new research.

Today, when British maps refer to mean sea level, they’re actually referring to the average of the water levels that were recorded hourly between 1915 and 1921 at a pier in Newlyn, Cornwall.

In the first sidebar tab, labeled “Sea Level Rise,” the map shows what prominent sites could be partially underwater. If one selects Harvard University and slides the bar up and down, the ...