Scientists have uncovered the first man-made defense against sea-level rise built around 7,000 years ago – a defense that was ultimately unsuccessful, according to a study published Wednesday in PLOS ONE.
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Environmentalists sued a San Francisco Bay Area city Monday to stop the construction of a luxury apartment complex in an area comprised of sensitive wetlands susceptible to a rising sea.
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While the damaging side-effects of climate change have been exposed in California over recent years in the form of drought and deadly wildfires, another threat is looming off its shores.
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The Greenland ice sheet is melting so quickly that nearly 400 million people will be underwater within 80 years due to rising sea levels, according to a study published Tuesday.
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Despite a push for a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions with the Paris Climate Agreement, new research released Monday shows Earth’s oceans will still rise more than three feet due to the pollution currently produced.
Read moreCoastlines and populations around the world are three times more vulnerable to coastal flooding and rising sea levels due to climate change than previously believed, according to a new study published Tuesday in Nature Communications.
Read moreSteps away from California surfers catching waves at picturesque La Jolla Shores, U.S. Reps. Mike Levin and Kathy Castor discussed adapting to climate change Thursday with world-renowned experts at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.
Read moreMassive ice sheets in Greenland, the Antarctic and other locations lost more than 9 trillion tons of ice in the past five decades – adding over an inch of water to global sea levels.
Read moreRain – even in the dead of winter – is gradually wearing down a 660,000-square-mile sheet of ice in Greenland and about 270 billion tons of ice melts away each year, researchers reported Thursday.
Read moreAs rising seawater gives way to flooding, coastal wetlands will play an important role in managing carbon emissions and should be properly managed to offset atmospheric carbon emissions, according to a new study published Wednesday.
Read moreUsing bleeding edge satellite technology, scientists have gained insight into the status of one of Antarctica’s biggest glaciers – and the results aren’t pretty.
Read moreSurface ice melting from Greenland – one of the key drivers of global sea level rise – has shifted into overdrive and shows no signs of abating, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature.
Read moreNASA will soon have more detailed information than ever before about the melting of Earth’s polar ice caps and how they affect sea level rise.
Read moreCurrent goals for cutting greenhouse gas emissions might not be enough to curb global warming, according to a new study Monday indicating we’re headed for a domino effect that could speed up the warming process by four to five degrees and cause sea levels to rise.
Read moreA new study finds sea-level rise isn’t the only thing the San Francisco Bay Area has to worry about: sinking land will greatly exacerbate the flooding risk.
Read moreTwenty-five years of satellite data reveal that sea-level rise is increasing rapidly and by the end of the century could be twice as high as some climate models project, a new study finds.
Read moreThe thinning of even small portions of floating ice along Antarctica’s coast can accelerate the loss of ice grounded on rocks hundreds of miles away, a new study finds.
Read moreSea-level rise could threaten more than 13,000 archaeological sites, buildings, cultural landscapes and cemeteries along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of the United States, a new study finds.
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New evidence has led to an update of when an ancient ice sheet that used to cover large portions of North America melted – a discovery has implications for modern ice sheets and glaciers in the face of climate change.
Read moreScientists believe they have discovered one of the earliest human victims of a tsunami after finding geological sediments in a 6,000-year-old skull.
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