Human-caused climate change is driving modern sea level rise. The chart used in the posts seems to have been made by a Wikimedia Commons user and appears on the Wikipedia page for Early Holocene ...

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

The Mauna Loa laboratory in Hawaii has measured atmospheric carbon dioxide, which — along with other planet-warming pollution ...

Is sea level rising? The rate of global sea level rise has gone from 0.06 inches per year throughout most of the 20th century to 0.14 inches (about 1/8 of an inch) per year from 2006–2015 .

Ancient coral fossils from the remote Seychelles islands have unveiled a dramatic warning for our future—sea levels can rise ...

In a 2011 study, Leonard Konikow of the U.S. Geological Survey calculated that groundwater depletion accounted for about 6 percent of sea-level rise during the 20th century.

For around 2,000 years, global sea levels hardly varied. That changed in the twentieth century. Sea levels started rising and have not stopped since — and now, the pace is accelerating.

But since 2010, the U.S. Gulf Coast has seen a sudden burst of rapid sea level rise, with rates that scientists didn’t expect to see until late this century.At its center lie the wetlands that ...

Extreme glacier melt and record ocean heat levels contributed to an average rise in sea levels of 4.62mm a year between 2013 and 2022. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Sea-level rise is accelerating. From 1900 to 2018, global sea levels rose by about 20cm (a long-term average of 1.7mm/yr), but almost everywhere the rate of rise is increasing. Measurements since ...

A limit on sea-level rise would help contain the threat that rising tides pose to Florida’s real estate and property insurance markets and thereby help ensure the state’s economic viability. When ...

Sea-level rise is already happening, affecting almost all of Florida’s 1,350 miles of coastline. And experts say it’s going to get worse at an increasing pace.