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Research led by the Union of Concerned Scientists reports that emissions from the world's largest fossil fuel and cement ...

A new interactive map called the “Coastal Risk Finder” allows you to zoom into your neighborhood to see what water levels ...

Climate change was a major driver to an unexpected level of sea level rise in 2024, according to a new NASA analysis. Global sea levels rose 0.23 inches in 2024, satellite records show ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — In January, FEMA released new flood maps showing that thousands of homes in Palm Beach County ...

Global sea level will rise rapidly in the coming century; perhaps by more than 1 meter. This is primarily caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases (source: IPCC). Submerged peat ...

and the rate of rise is getting faster and faster," Josh Willis, who researches sea level rise at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a statement. SEE ALSO: What will happen when the next ...

Since the satellite recording of ocean height began in 1993, the rate of annual sea level rise has more than doubled. Global sea levels rose faster than expected in 2024 as the world experienced ...

and the rate of rise is getting faster and faster," said Josh Willis, a sea level researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in a statement. Warming oceans cause sea levels to go up ...

Last year was the hottest year on record, and now a recent NASA-led analysis shows that 2024 also marked an unexpected increase in sea level rise. While scientists had expected the rate of sea ...

“But in 2024, those contributions flipped, with two-thirds of sea-level rise coming from thermal expansion,” the agency said. The year 2024 was the warmest on record since such record-keeping ...