LOWCOUNTRY, S.C. (WCIV) — Here in the Lowcountry, we are surrounded by water. At least half of Charleston is made up of marshes, creeks and coastal waters. But lately, water seems to be creeping up ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sea-level rise changes coastlines, putting homes at risk, as Summer Haven, Fla., has seen. Aerial Views/E+/Getty Images When polar ...

Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use sediments and fossils to roughly reconstruct how sea levels changed over ...

Global sea levels have not continued to rise at the rates predicted by many scientists — and there is no evidence that climate change has contributed to any such acceleration, a new first-of-its-kind ...

The Verde River is one of the last free-flowing rivers in Arizona, winding through what’s known as the Verde Valley before feeding into the Salt River. Agriculturally, the valley is relatively fertile ...

According to new research from Virginia Tech, Hampton is sinking at a rate of 2.3 millimeters a year. “Hampton turned out to be one of the cities that the larger rates of land subsidence that we ...

According to new research, Shanghai appears to be sinking faster than previously believed. Scientists from the UK, China, and the US published new research in Nature showing that global sea level rise ...

WASHINGTON — The Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine today announced an award of more than $7.3 million to support four interdisciplinary ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Recently released data about sea levels show what could be in store when it comes to the future of flooding in Hampton Roads. William & Mary’s Batten School and the Virginia ...

I see the next ten years as a stress test for coastal civilization: enough time for sea level rise to become impossible to ignore, but not enough for slow political systems to fully catch up. The ...