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

New research shows that extreme floods in coastal areas are becoming more common as climate change causes sea levels to rise.

The findings raise concerns for Connecticut's coastline, which already lost over a third of its tidal wetlands.

The ocean looks like a fixed bowl, but scientists just found proof it spent 9 million years shrinking itself and pulling seas ...

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 ...

Human-driven sea level rise has increased how often extreme coastal flooding occurs around the world, according to a study released Wednesday. Experts say the findings are crucial for coastal ...

A new study found that there is no evidence that climate change has contributed to rising sea levels. Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images See more of our coverage in your search results.

Two photographs comparing a harbour in Cornwall, England, more than 120 years apart are not evidence that climate ...

Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use sediments and fossils to roughly reconstruct how sea levels changed over ...