1992 – 2022 Global mean sea level has risen 101 millimeters (3.98 inches) since 1992, and it continues to do so at 3.9 mm (0.15…
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University of South Florida geologist Bogdan Onac stands next to preindustrial overgrowths in the Cala Varques cave in Mallorca, Spain. Credit: University of South Florida…
A new research study finds that extreme weather events could actually help protect beaches from the impact of sea level rise – by bringing in…
Map of the Amundsen Sea Basin. Credit: European Geosciences Union A new study provides the first evidence that rising greenhouse gases have a long-term warming…
This animation shows the radar pulse from the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite’s altimeter bouncing off the sea surface in order to measure the height of…
The rate of glacier ice flow is more sensitive to stress than previously calculated, according to a new study by MIT researchers that upends a…
An international team of scientists including Rutgers researchers has found that modern rates of sea level rise began emerging in 1863 as the Industrial Age…
Coastal cities like Miami, shown, already experience high-tide flooding. Credit: B137 (CC-BY) NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent…
Using data on glacier velocity, South America’s tropical Andes mountains were found to have up to 23% less ice and freshwater availability. Darker colors overlayed…
Simulated mass loss of the Antarctic ice sheet from 1990 until 3000 expressed as sea-level contribution: Fourteen experiments for the unabated warming pathway (RCP8.5, SSP5-8.5),…
Research team surveying the seafloor near Thwaites Glacier. Credit: Alex Mazur / British Antarctic Survey Ice sheet’s demise poses the biggest threat for sea-level rise…
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Tarawa Atoll in the Republic of Kiribati – a remote Pacific nation threatened by rising seas. The…
Surface meltwater flowing towards the ocean through a channel in Greenland. Credit: Ian Joughin Global warming has caused extreme ice melting events in Greenland to…
Surface meltwater flowing towards the ocean through a channel in Greenland. Credit: Ian Joughin Global warming has caused extreme ice melting events in Greenland to…
The top painting is based on pre-colonization Indigenous cities and communities with buildings and a diverse maize-based agriculture. The second is the same area today,…
By the end of the century, extreme sea levels along coastlines across the world will become 100 times more frequent. Global warming will cause extreme…
The aquatic life of the San Pedro Mártir River in Tabasco, Mexico, finds refuge in the submerged roots of the red mangrove forests. Credit: Octavio…
Ice capped and snow-covered mountains of coastal west Greenland. (April 2015). Credit: Matthew Osman © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Greenland may be best known for…
Scientists expect extreme sea level events to occur much more often as global temperatures rise. Critical coastal events, happening once a century in recent times,…
Aerial view of Severnaya Zemlya in the Russian Arctic. Glaciers and ice caps in two archipelagos in the Russian Arctic are losing enough meltwater to…