This video floods Earth with extreme amounts of water to simulate sea level rise far beyond normal climate projections. It ...

Antarctica's ice may be far more predictable over the next 50 years than scientists thought, offering clearer sea level ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from the poles. But ...

Scientists predict that the next three to five decades provide a critical window to anticipate and plan for Antarctic ice ...

Coastal cities from Miami to Mumbai sit on land that would vanish beneath the ocean if Earth’s two largest ice sheets, Greenland and Antarctica, surrendered all their frozen mass. The combined result, ...

Scientists are warning that the collapse of Antarctica’s massive “doomsday glacier” could eventually redraw large parts of America’s coastline, threatening major cities from Florida to California with ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Evgen Prozhyrko/iStock/Getty Images Plus) A thorough reexamination of scientific data has revealed that the rate of sea-level ...

Scientists are sounding the alarm over the melting "Doomsday Glacier," warning of potentially catastrophic consequences for global sea levels. The Thwaites Glacier, situated on the West Antarctic Ice ...

Sea-level rise threatens deltas worldwide, requiring adaptation to flood risks. Delta adaptation is typically presented as a choice between five strategies: advance, protect-closed, protect-open, ...

Effective coastal exposure assessments are crucial for adaptively managing threats from sea-level rise (SLR). Despite recent advances, global and regional assessments are constrained by omitting ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from the poles. But ...