Scientists say they have finally explained a long-running sea-level rise mystery, tracing nearly all of the ocean's rise over ...

Earth’s oceans are rising at nearly twice the pace seen in the 1960s, fueled by warming water and accelerating ice melt.

The world’s oceans are rising at an accelerating pace, and scientists now say they can fully explain what’s driving it.

Ghost forests, the cemetery-like groupings of dead trees killed by saltwater intrusion, have become haunting symbols of sea ...

SpaceX launched a joint NASA-European environmental research satellite early Monday, the second in an ongoing billion-dollar project to measure long-term changes in sea level, a key indicator of ...

New Jersey is likely to see between 2.2 and 3.8 feet of sea-level rise by 2100 if the current level of global carbon emissions continue, but seas could rise by as much as 4.5 feet if ice-sheet melt ...

Most people picture sea level rise as something like filling a bathtub: water goes in, the surface rises evenly, and every coastline faces the same fate. The reality is far more complicated and, in ...

Chris Mooney is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a CNN Climate contributor. He is currently a professor of practice in the Environmental Institute at the University of Virginia. Bathtubs and ...

A new 30-year analysis reveals that melting land ice is now the main force behind rising global sea levels. Researchers discovered that oceans rose about 90 millimeters since 1993, with most of the ...