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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Map Shows 2050 South Florida Sea Level Rise, Flood Risks South Florida’s future looks soggy as rising sea levels threaten Vizcaya, Belle Meade, and FIU Biscayne Bay by 2050.