A shrimp trawler navigates a salt marsh in South Carolina, where commercial and recreational fishing generate more than $78 million and $213 million, respectively, each year. A new mapping tool will ...

This video floods Earth with extreme amounts of water to simulate sea level rise far beyond normal climate projections. It reveals how continents would fragment, leaving only high mountains and ...

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 ...

Parts of seaside towns are at risk of disappearing under rising sea levels, according to research. Coastal areas along the ...

Densely populated coastal regions in many parts of the world are particularly vulnerable to flooding. The sinking of land masses exacerbates the impacts of rising sea levels in these areas, according ...

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 ...

Hundreds of global and regional studies on sea level rise and coastal flooding may have underestimated sea levels by an average of 20 to 30 centimeters. The findings suggest that the toll of future ...