Global coastal sea levels are on average 1 foot higher than previously assumed, a new report finds, raising alarms the world is underestimating how much land and how many people will be affected by ...

Sea levels are rising faster than in 4,000 years, putting some of the world's largest cities at growing risk of flooding and sinking.

In 2024, the hottest year in recorded history, sea levels rose at a rate 35% more than expected, according to a new report from NASA. The space agency explained on its website that the acceleration of ...

For around 2,000 years, global sea levels varied little. That changed in the 20th century. They started rising and have not stopped since — and the pace is accelerating. Scientists are scrambling to ...

A lot of past research has used flawed methodology to estimate current coastal water levels, according to a new study ...

Around the world, sea levels are rising. But, strangely, in Greenland, they're actually forecast to fall in the coming decades. In a new study, a team led by geophysicist Lauren Lewright at Columbia ...

An El Niño event combined with other weather phenomena led to record level sea rise in African oceans during 2023 and 2024.

After analyzing 385 studies related to coastal areas and sea level rise, scientists found a significant discrepancy between ...

Climate change's rising seas may threaten tens of millions more people than scientists and government planners originally thought because of mistaken research assumptions on how high coastal waters ...

A study published in Nature on March 4, 2026, found that more than 99% of coastal hazard assessments conducted over the past 16 years used flawed sea-level data, meaning actual ocean levels are ...