Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Humans and sea lions at La Jolla Cove on Oct. 8, 2024. The area faces some of the highest risks of sea-level rise in California.

Results from two major studies suggest tens of millions of people thought safe from coastal flooding are now at risk.

Over the next decade, rising oceans are poised to redraw the edges of some of the world’s best known coastal cities, turning today’s “once in a century” floods into regular events and pushing salt ...

Almost all research on the impacts of future sea-level rise has assumed today’s sea levels are lower than they actually are due to a “methodological blind spot”. That means flooding and erosion will ...

For over three decades, satellites orbiting Earth have measured the height of the ocean surface with remarkable precision. These measurements are crucial because changes in ocean height are one of the ...

Rising sea levels could flood thousands of hazardous sites in marginalized communities mostly across seven states by 2100 should greenhouse gases continue to build up in the atmosphere, a study ...

A glacier’s surface crevasses, seen here, form in response to faster flow and higher stresses. New research found that a key ...

Humans and sea lions at La Jolla Cove on Oct. 8, 2024. The area faces some of the highest risks of sea-level rise in California. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) For decades, California has been ...