Editor’s note: This is part of a series of stories exploring the NOAA’s new Sea Level Rise Viewer. Like much of the eastern seaboard, a new tool that predicts how future sea rise may change the ...

Ocean water expands as it warms, researchers said. 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 ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ...

A new map shows which parts of Florida are vulnerable to sea-level rises and increased flooding due to climate change. The map, developed by researchers at Climate Central, uses advanced predictive ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — In January, FEMA released new flood maps showing that thousands of homes in Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast are at greater risk for flooding. But new research ...

New geological data has given more insight into the rate and magnitude of global sea level rise following the last ice age, about 11,700 years ago. This information is of great importance to ...

There was less sea ice covering the oceans in February of this year than at any other point on record, according to satellite measurements from the European Union’s climate service Copernicus. “One of ...

Large changes in global sea level, fueled by fluctuations in ice sheet growth and decay, occurred throughout the last ice age, rather than just toward the end of that period, a study published in the ...