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

A massive and surprising change is unfolding around Antarctica. Scientists have discovered that the Southern Ocean is getting saltier, and sea ice is melting at record speed, enough to match the size ...

Flooding used to be a rare event, but now it’s becoming part of daily life in parts of the country. With land sinking and sea ...

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

A South Pacific island nation on the frontlines of the climate crisis brought "the world's biggest problem to the world's ...

Researchers have revealed the declining health of coastal marshes several years before visible signs of decline, providing an ...

A program created by the SC Aquarium enables anyone with a cell phone to turn flood photos into flood data. Beaufort County ...

Sea-level rise isn’t always slow and steady. Fossil corals from the Seychelles show that it has surged in quick bursts in the past – rising much faster than most people would expect. The fossilized ...

In its totality, Dutton says the new evidence, thanks to fossilized corals from thousands of years ago suggests that sea levels could rise even faster and higher thanks to climate change than current ...

Think of the Ross Ice Shelf like a giant bottle stopper — it holds back inland ice and helps keep sea levels in check. But when rivers like this one thin that shelf from beneath, it makes it easier ...

The WMO also highlighted the threat posed to Pacific countries through sea level rise – it found the world’s oceans were rising by an average of 4.7mm a year between 2015 and 2024, the highest ...