Sea-level rise changes coastlines, putting homes at risk, as Summer Haven, Fla., has seen. Aerial Views/E+/Getty Images When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice ...

Sea level rise — mostly due to glacial melt largely caused by anthropogenic climate change — has been a hot button topic for the past half century. But historically defining the basic parameters of ...

The flooding Marin County experienced in early January made one thing unmistakably clear: The story we’ve long told ourselves about sea-level rise no longer holds true. For years, many assumed ...

When visiting Godrevy beach on the north Cornish coast, most people look out to sea at the lighthouse, surfers and seals rather than the cliffs behind. But these cliffs hold a history of past climate ...

Over the next decade, rising oceans are poised to redraw the edges of some of the world’s best known coastal cities, turning today’s “once in a century” floods into regular events and pushing salt ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Sea level rise will become unmanageable at just 1.5C of global heating and lead to ...

Severe flooding hits Palisades Medical Center in Hudson County, N.J., on Oct. 30. (Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu/Getty Images via Inside Climate News) This story originally appeared on Inside Climate ...

Ed Gasson receives funding from The Royal Society and the Natural Environment Research Council. When visiting Godrevy beach on the north Cornish coast, most people look out to sea at the lighthouse, ...