MIT oceanographer Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli's work on the Venetian Lagoon's MOSE barrier project has informed a new exhibit on sea-level rise at the Museum of Science, Boston.

Sea level rise is accelerating rapidly, and U.S. coasts could see another foot of water on average by 2050, according to NOAA.

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A chilling new report predicts a foot of sea level rise in the US by 2050. But quirks of physics mean everyone will suffer in different ways.

Tropical peatlands are among the most efficient carbon sinks. The flip side is that they can become massive emitters of carbon if they are damaged, for instance, by land use change, degradation or fire. This can lead to faster climate warming. In research led by the University of Göttingen, researchers show how peatland in the coastal areas in Sumatra and Borneo in Indonesia developed over thousands of years and…

A new interactive tool is helping residents understand how their lands and homes are at risk.

Sea level rise this century may disproportionately affect certain Asian megacities as well as western tropical Pacific islands and the western Indian Ocean, according to new research that looks at the effects of natural sea level fluctuations on the projected rise due to climate change.

Researchers have used advanced ocean modelling techniques to reveal how greenhouse gas emissions contribute to warmer oceans and resulting melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

For the first time, the public has access to a whole-of-government, comprehensive online resource all about sea level rise: SeaLevel.GlobalChange.gov.

A Griffith University study found that wetland vegetation will naturally re-establish on abandoned agricultural land threatened by sea level rise.

Ports could face billions of dollars annually in damage from climate change, a new report warns, if greenhouse gas emissions keep rising.

Antarctica's melting ice sheet is relieving pressure on the land beneath, allowing it to push upwards in a way that could slow sea level rise in coming centuries – but only if greenhouse gas emissions are low

One question for Sönke Dangendorf, a coastal flooding researcher at Tulane University.

Coastal cities are doubly impacted by the flood risk of rising seas and sinking land due to human activity.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) recommends raising the imaginary waterline demarcation for projects in the Asia Pacific region to two meters, instead of the existing one meter, to improve the resilience of structures against rising sea levels.

NOAA releases report detailing the acceleration

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Designed to be user-friendly, the resource contains the latest sea level data, explainers, and other information from several U.S. agencies.

Recent efforts using computational modeling to understand how melting ice in Antarctica will impact the planet's oceans have focused on ice-sheet geometry, fracture, and surface melting—processes that could potentially trigger or accelerate ice-sheet mass loss. Now, researchers from Stanford University have identified an additional process that could have a similarly significant effect on the ice sheet's future:…