Nearly one-third of the 157 federal facilities designated as Superfund sites on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Priorities List may be at risk from sea level rise or increased ...

Many people in the United States receive little or no information about flood risk when they move into a new home or ...

Rising seas are quietly threatening these seven cities, where the encroaching ocean is already affecting neighborhoods and infrastructure, yet these stories remain overlooked in the broader climate ...

Long-lost 1960s aerial photos let Copenhagen researchers watch Antarctica’s Wordie Ice Shelf crumble in slow motion. By fusing film with satellites, they discovered warm ocean water, not surface ponds ...

The researchers found that compact “scrub” mangroves, dominated by Rhizophora mangle, kept absorbing about 294 grams of ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR) — A warm, muggy, and unsettled Wednesday is in store for Southwest and Central Virginia. Scattered ...

On average, it takes five to seven years to develop and implement a new FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Map. As a result, many maps ...

A groundbreaking study published in Nature Geoscience has revealed a previously unknown topography beneath the East Antarctic ...

Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth's poles slightly away from the ...

A new study identified hot spots of sinking levees that will need to be prioritized for maintenance to withstand future ...

Parts of New Orleans, including its international airport, are sinking nearly 2 inches per year, according to a new study. Wetlands and parts of the city's levee system are sinking, too.