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

Irina Marinov, associate professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, leads a research community focused ...

Exactly when areas around the bay's edge will go underwater is uncertain, but studies suggest that by 2050, the region could experience 12 to 36 inches of sea level rise.

A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that increases in salinity in seawater ...

THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE in San Rafael’s poorest community are at a growing risk of being islanded by flood waters, with no ...

To deal with Highway 37’s bottleneck in the meantime, the agency has proposed a $500 million “interim project” to widen the ...

Rising seas The new study found sea levels are now rising on average twice as fast, at 4.3mm a year on average since 2019, up from 1.8mm a year at the turn of the 20th century.

That level of gas accumulation, which comes from the burning of fuels like gasoline, oil and coal, is sooner than the same group of 60 international scientists calculated in a study last year.

"And there also is uncertainty around whether or not sea level rise will be incorporated into future flood insurance rate maps," she said. Right now, rate maps are based only on h ...

Sea-level rise isn’t always slow and steady. Fossil corals from the Seychelles show that it has surged in quick bursts in the past – rising much faster than most people would expect. The fossilized ...

Published: 14:11 EDT, 13 June 2025 | Updated: 15:29 EDT, 13 June 2025 A new interactive map is painting a grim picture for America's coastal cities, with many projected to be underwater by 2050.

Adopting policies to address sea level rise is required by state law, including legislation that required the Coastal Commission to provide direction on how to create those plans. The agency did ...