In theory, the maps enable homeowners, businesses and local officials to understand their flood risk and take appropriate ...

Greenland’s ice-covered landscape looks like an immovable block on satellite maps. Yet the story beneath its center suggests ...

On average, it takes five to seven years to develop and implement a new FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Map. As a result, many maps across the U.S. are significantly out of date, often failing to reflect ...

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

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

South Carolina's coast is home to islands big and small, formed by the natural movement of sand. But rising tides could ...

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 ...

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.

On 28 November 1966, an American airplane flies over the Antarctic Peninsula just south of the southernmost tip of Chile. On ...

But while two feet may feel far off, experts say the impacts of rising tides and extreme rainfall are being felt now. The widespread street flooding from two gloomy days of rain last week in South ...

Researchers have released their 2024 U.S. sea level 'report cards,' providing updated analyses of sea level trends and projections for 36 coastal communities. Encompassing 55 years of historical ...

The map uses an “intermediate” prediction of sea level rise for different decades. Under these conditions, with current commitments, there would be about a foot of sea-level rise by 2050 in ...