Extreme Sea Levels to Become Far More Common Worldwide as Earth Warms
Critical coastal events, happening once a century in recent times, to occur every year on average. The news has been packed in recent months with…
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Critical coastal events, happening once a century in recent times, to occur every year on average. The news has been packed in recent months with…
Glaciers and ice caps in two archipelagos in the Russian Arctic are losing enough meltwater to fill nearly five million Olympic-size swimming pools each year,…
Improving Projections, Predictions and Protection in the Face of Expected Sea Level Rise A new assessment of flood risk in Venice indicates that the impact…
A new study predicts that any sea level rise in the world’s most southern continent will be countered by an increase in snowfall, associated with…
A new online visualization tool will enable anyone to see what sea levels will look like anywhere in the world in the decades to come….
Coastal communities across the world are increasingly facing up to the huge threats posed by a combination of extreme storms and predicted rises in sea…
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Malé – the capital and most populous city in the Republic of Maldives. The Republic of Maldives consists…
A new method for seeing through ice sheets using radio signals from the sun could enable cheap, low-power, and widespread monitoring of ice sheet evolution…
In the mid-2030s, every U.S. coast will experience rapidly increasing high-tide floods, when a lunar cycle will amplify rising sea levels caused by climate change….
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, the latest spacecraft to monitor sea surface height, releases its first science measurements to users. After six months of check-out and calibration…
Following liftoff last November and more than six months spent carefully calibrating the most advanced mission dedicated to measuring sea-level rise, Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich…
Study sheds light on the future of the massive Thwaites Glacier. The world’s largest ice sheets may be in less danger of sudden collapse than…
New research finds that moving off the coast and away from floods can expand options. University of Delaware disaster researcher A.R. Siders said it’s time…
Nation’s ability to predict sea-level rise boosted with record going back to 10,000 years ago. Climate scientists at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU, Singapore)…
The unexpected discovery of a whale skeleton hundreds of miles from the sea and more than 200 feet above sea level in 1849 is a…
Antarctic ice sheet is more likely to remain stable if Paris climate agreement is met. The Antarctic ice sheet is much less likely to become…
New calculations show the rise due to warming would be 30% above forecasts. Global sea level rise associated with the possible collapse of the West…
Fractures from melting and run-off will indirectly lead to sea level rise. More than a third of the Antarctic’s ice shelf area could be at…