Scientists reconstructed 540 million years of sea level changes, showing Earth's oceans rose and fell by hundreds of feet ...

On 28 November 1966, an American airplane flies over the Antarctic Peninsula just south of the southernmost tip of Chile. On ...

Old Antarctic photos help University of Copenhagen scientists trace ice shelf collapse and predict future sea level rise.

Researchers have modeled sea level changes on thousand-year timescales for the past 540 million years. These insights offer ...

If Earth stays at its current levels of warming — below policymakers’ goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius — polar ice sheets may melt, causing seas to rise and displacing coastal communities, a ...

Marylanders can explore current and future coastal flooding risks around their property and community with a new mapping tool.

In a nutshell New Orleans’ $15 billion flood protection system is sinking up to 28 millimeters per year—nearly 10 times faster than sea level rise The Louis Armstrong International Airport ...

At the end of World War II, the United States was left with a sprawling set of advanced research facilities, originally set up in the race to produce nuclear weapons. Rather than stopping the science, ...