sea-level rise

Climate scientists already know that the East Coast of the United States could see around a foot of sea-level rise by 2050, which will be catastrophic on its own. But they are just beginning to thoroughly measure a “hidden vulnerability”…

SWOT could turn out to be a major improvement over measurements by previous satellites. “Instead of a ‘pencil beam’ moving along the Earth’s surface from a satellite, it’s a wide swath. It’ll provide a lot more information, a lot more…

However, in recent decades, the sea has dominated the once-dynamic coastal margin, propelling farther inland as sea levels rise. Over the last century, the sea level along New Jersey has risen by 0.45 meters, more than double the global…

The LSU report, though, became best known for its proposed solution, which focused on counteracting levees. The authors suggested that some water and mud be diverted out of the Mississippi, back into the marshland. Let the river resume the…

This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.When Saikou Demba was a young man starting out in the hospitality business, he opened a little hotel on the Gambian coast called the Leybato and…

FP TrendingAug 23, 2021 18:16:31 ISTIn a stark sign of climate change, rain fell at the summit of Greenland’s ice sheet for the first time in recorded history. The average temperatures are normally well below freezing degree on the summit,…

The ConversationAug 16, 2021 14:45:51 IST"Nowhere is safe.” As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned in a recent report that climate change and its consequences are here to stay, is there still an opportunity to…

During the summer of 2017, the tide rose to historic heights again and again in Honolulu, higher than at any time in the 112 years that records had been kept. Philip Thompson, director of the Sea Level Center at the University of Hawaii,…

FP StaffJul 15, 2021 12:52:43 ISTA new study led by members of the NASA Sea Level Change Science Team from the University of Hawaii shows that high tides will exceed known flooding thresholds around the US more often. In a warning, the…

LIA is a key area that scientists were banking upon to support ice-dependent species when the nearby ice was melting away. (Image: Felix Linhardt/Kiel University)Climate change: The ‘Last Ice Area’, located in the Arctic’s Ice north of…