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

For almost a century, researchers have known that vertical land motion—the lifting and sinking of the ground—affects sea ...

(Evgen Prozhyrko/iStock/Getty Images Plus) A thorough reexamination of scientific data has revealed that the rate of ...

Researchers Find Human-Caused Sea Level Rise Is Behind the Most Recent Increases in Extreme Water Levels Rising seas are ...

Human-driven sea level rise has increased how often extreme coastal flooding occurs around the world, according to a study ...

Sea levels are rising not only on average, but also in their seasonal fluctuations. This is a lesser-known trend that could have major consequences for mudflats, salt marshes and other coastal ...

Chris Mooney is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a CNN Climate contributor. He is currently a professor of practice in the Environmental Institute at the University of Virginia. Bathtubs and ...

The world’s oceans are rising at an accelerating pace, and scientists now say they can fully explain what’s driving it. Warming seawater is the biggest factor, while melting glaciers and polar ice ...

A new 30-year analysis reveals that melting land ice is now the main force behind rising global sea levels. Researchers discovered that oceans rose about 90 millimeters since 1993, with most of the ...

Ice-age sea-level declines may have turned seafloor volcanoes into natural iron fertilizer for plankton, potentially enhancing ocean carbon storage, Boston College researchers report in the journal ...