Higher water levels here threaten the lives of approximately 160 million people who live along the shoreline. As Hurriyet ...

Worldwide, millions of people live in river deltas that are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, research suggests.

From the Nile to the Mississippi, sinking land is compounding sea-level rise. A new study pinpoints where deltas are dropping ...

The world's major river deltas, including the Ganga-Brahmaputra, are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, heightening ...

A new study published in Nature finds human-driven land sinking now outpaces sea-level rise in many of the world’s major ...

The latest sea-level rise "report cards" by Virginia researchers show that ocean levels are continuing to rise and in some cases, including along the North Carolina coast, are speeding up. Data ...

Rising sea levels could flood thousands of hazardous sites in marginalized communities mostly across seven states by 2100 should greenhouse gases continue to build up in the atmosphere, a new study ...

Can New York City adapt to rapidly rising sea levels? More than 1 million people are living in or near a flood plain in New York City. New York City is among the most densely populated coastal ...

Sea-level rise changes coastlines, putting homes at risk, as Summer Haven, Fla., has seen. Aerial Views/E+/Getty Images Shaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from ...