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…

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.…

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…

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,…

One of the ideas people have explored is building seawalls, coastal defenses that deflect rising water. The Army Corps of Engineers has one in the works for Galveston Bay, and is proposing…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…