Global coastal sea levels are on average 1 foot higher than previously assumed, a new report finds, raising alarms the world ...

After analyzing 385 studies related to coastal areas and sea level rise, scientists found a significant discrepancy between geoid measurements and actual sea levels, especially in the global south.

A lot of past research has used flawed methodology to estimate current coastal water levels, according to a new study ...

Humans are a coastal species. More than one in ten people in the world live within three miles of the shore, and about 40 ...

Oceans are rising as the climate changes, threatening coastal cities. A new study shows that much more of the world's ...

Most coastal risk assessments have underestimated current sea levels, meaning tens of millions of people face losing their homes to rising waters earlier than expected ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man stands facing away from viewer, looking at an ice block at the coastline Around the world, sea levels are rising. But, ...

A peer-reviewed study published in Nature on March 4, 2026, finds that up to 132 million more people worldwide may be exposed to sea-level rise than previous assessments suggested. The core problem is ...

A systematic review of nearly 400 coastal hazard studies has found that the vast majority relied on flawed assumptions about where sea level actually sits, leading to significant underestimates of ...

The California Coastal Commission says that king tides are a preview of what sea levels could look like in the Bay Area in 25 years. Shifting shorelines could cause big problems for Bay Area residents ...

Even as global warming causes sea levels to rise worldwide, sea levels around Greenland will likely drop, according to a new paper published in Nature Communications. "The Greenland coastline is going ...

Pekka Niittyvirta and Timo Aho, Lines (57° 59´N, 7° 16´W) (All images provided courtesy of the artists.) “The installation explores the catastrophic impact of our relationship with nature and its long ...