Rising Seas Mean More Flooding Will Be Coming to New York City
There’s going to be a lot more flooding in New York this year as climate change causes sea levels to continue to rise. The Battery, at the southern tip of Manhattan, Continue Reading
New Data Shows an ‘Extraordinary’ Rise in U.S. Coastal Flooding
Parts of the United States saw record levels of high-tide flooding last year as rising seas brought water further into coastal homes and infrastructure, government scientists reported Tuesday. The increase in Continue Reading
Sea levels could rise more than a metre by 2100, experts say
Sea-level rise is faster than previously believed and could exceed 1 metre by the end of the century unless global emissions are reduced, according to a survey of more than Continue Reading
A Satellite Lets Scientists See Antarctica’s Melting Like Never Before
Using their elevation data, the researchers found that Greenland is losing about 200 billion tons of mass each year on average. That’s enough to raise sea levels by about eight Continue Reading
Climate change is forcing Norfolk, Va., and other waterfront communities to plan their retreat from the coasts
On Richmond Crescent in Norfolk, Va., more than a dozen homes rise in varying heights, forming a streetscape bar graph tracing the past decade’s increasing threat of flooding from an Continue Reading
Europe Is Shrinking as the Sea Encroaches on Its Coastline – Bloomberg
At the Trump Doonbeg golf course on Ireland’s west coast, the ocean has been inching closer to a private bar overlooking the 18th hole. Since the links opened in 2002, Continue Reading
Rising sea levels put Myanmar’s villages on frontline of climate change
Three years ago, the villagers watched as the Sittaung River on Myanmar’s southeast coast crept closer to them, swollen by powerful tidal surges from the Gulf of Mottama that eroded Continue Reading
After Trump Mocks a Sea Wall in New York, Plan Is Abruptly Shelved
The Trump administration has unexpectedly halted a project to protect the New York City region from flooding during dangerous storms like Hurricane Sandy — a decision that came six weeks Continue Reading
To Save Louisiana’s Vanishing Coast, Build a Mini Mississippi Near Boston
We were standing on the levee of the Mississippi River, about an hour west of Boston. Of course, the actual Mississippi River is a half-continent away. We were in fact Continue Reading
First look under imperilled Antarctic glacier finds ‘warm water coming from all directions’
Taking advantage of rare ice-free waters in West Antarctica last February, scientists got their first look underneath Thwaites Glacier, a massive and increasingly unstable formation perched at the edge of Continue Reading