A new climate projection map is raising concerns about the future of several major US coastal cities if global sea levels rise by 3 meters. Areas of Florida, Louisiana, and New York are among the ...

Scientists are warning that the collapse of Antarctica’s massive “doomsday glacier” could eventually redraw large parts of America’s coastline, threatening major cities from Florida to California with ...

When Steve Tarr hit golf balls from his Fort Pierce beachfront home, his 110-yard wedge shot would span the dune to the surf, he said. Eventually, he noticed his shots splashed down farther out to sea ...

If Indian River County gave up beach renourishment efforts, its shoreline would recede 49 feet by 2050 and 229 feet by 2100 because of sea level rise, according to projections in a report that ...

Scientists are sounding the alarm over the melting "Doomsday Glacier," warning of potentially catastrophic consequences for global sea levels. The Thwaites Glacier, situated on the West Antarctic Ice ...

For almost a century, researchers have known that vertical land motion—the lifting and sinking of the ground—affects sea level locally. As the ground sinks, the sea level rises relative to the land.

Predictions of how much sea-levels would rise due to climate change, made by a key UN report in 2001, were conservative, say researchers on the eve of the release of the new update of the report.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Evgen Prozhyrko/iStock/Getty Images Plus) A thorough reexamination of scientific data has revealed that the rate of sea-level ...

Florida has added more than 421 million cubic yards of sand at a cost of nearly $2.5 billion Fort Pierce, called the "most-eroded beach in Florida," loses more sand each year than it did 30 years ago.