(Evgen Prozhyrko/iStock/Getty Images Plus) A thorough reexamination of scientific data has revealed that the rate of sea-level rise is accelerating, and the primary driver might not be what you think.

"We can [now] explain sea level rise with greater confidence." ...

Rob DeConto and his research group of postdocs and grad students study polar climate change, the role of glaciers and ice sheets in past and future sea-level change, and the impacts of sea-level rise ...

Scientists predict that the next three to five decades provide a critical window to anticipate and plan for Antarctic ice ...

Those facing the earliest and harshest consequences are, overwhelmingly, those who did the least to create them World held hostage by reliance on fossil fuels, Christiana Figueres warns What are the ...

Over the last deglaciation, global sea level rose by ~120–130 m, 10–20 m of which was attributed to a singular, catastrophic event known as Meltwater Pulse 1A (MWP-1A) that spanned at most 500 years ...

Sea level rise — mostly due to glacial melt largely caused by anthropogenic climate change — has been a hot button topic for the past half century. But historically defining the basic parameters of ...

Sea-level rise (SLR) poses a high risk to vast coastal lowlands around the world, including low-elevated and populous river deltas and coastal plains. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on ...

Two photographs comparing a harbour in Cornwall, England, more than 120 years apart are not evidence that climate ...

DEAD SEA — It is an unparalleled wonder of the world: the lowest exposed spot on Earth, its therapeutic waters are so full of salt that bathers float right to the top. This natural spa is a source of ...