With rising sea levels becoming a reality for many parts of the globe, an interactive map from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gives residents in coastal communities and further ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series of stories exploring the NOAA’s new Sea Level Rise Viewer. Like much of the eastern seaboard, a new tool that predicts how future sea rise may change the ...

A new study published in Nature has found that sea levels along the world’s coastlines are already significantly higher than the majority of scientific assessments have assumed. The finding, which ...

Large cities face rising sea levels along the coast of California, despite the state's climate change defenses. New data from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science revealed that California's ...

Our coasts are more vulnerable than we realized.

Some of South Florida’s most coveted neighborhoods also are some of the most vulnerable to sea-level rise, according to nonprofit ClimateCentral.org. And now you can find exactly where they are. The ...

Thinking about the future ramifications of sea level rise in New Jersey might first bring to mind what rising oceans could mean for coastal and inland homes. Or businesses. Plenty of other ...

Many coastal maps start from the wrong sea-level baseline, and correcting the error could mean millions more are vulnerable ...