With rising sea levels becoming a reality for many parts of the globe, an interactive map from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gives residents in coastal communities and further ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sea-level rise changes coastlines, putting homes at risk, as Summer Haven, Fla., has seen. Aerial Views/E+/Getty Images When polar ...

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 ...

For around 2,000 years, global sea levels varied little. That changed in the 20th century. They started rising and have not stopped since — and the pace is accelerating. Scientists are scrambling to ...

A map shows where in Alaska may be at risk of serious flooding from sea level rise by 2100. A new study from University of Alaska Fairbanks graduate student Richard Buzard, found that communities in ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series of stories exploring the NOAA’s new Sea Level Rise Viewer. Like much of the eastern seaboard, a new tool that predicts how future sea rise may change the ...

Large cities face rising sea levels along the coast of California, despite the state's climate change defenses. New data from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science revealed that California's ...

Thinking about the future ramifications of sea level rise in New Jersey might first bring to mind what rising oceans could mean for coastal and inland homes. Or businesses. Plenty of other ...

Sea-level rise changes coastlines, putting homes at risk, as Summer Haven, Fla., has seen. Aerial Views/E+/Getty Images Shaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of ...

Shaina Sadai has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the Hitz Family Foundation. Ambarish Karmalkar receives funding from National Science Foundation. When polar ice sheets melt, ...