Since 1993, average global sea levels have risen roughly four inches due to global climate change, according to NASA. However, a meme that suggests polar ice melt from climate change cannot cause ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — It is a measurement at the center of concern and anxiety over climate change, a slow-moving threat marking the insidious danger posed by the ocean, which surrounds Staten Island ...

A satellite scheduled to launch from California later this month will measure sea level rise and provide other crucial data to scientists who study how global warming is affecting the Earth's oceans.

It’s now clear that sea levels are rising around the world.An international fleet of satellites is showing that they have already risen an average of nearly 3 inches since 1992, with some ocean areas ...

While satellites have revolutionized our ability to measure sea level with remarkable precision, their data becomes less reliable near coasts—where accurate information is most urgently needed.

A composite photograph comparing similar-looking shorelines on a British beach around half a century apart is not evidence warnings about rising sea levels are false, contrary to online posts.

Plymouth Rock, the place where William Bradford and other pilgrims are popularly believed to have made first landfall in what is now the United States, is not a benchmark of sea-level rise and does ...

In the mid-fifteen-hundreds, a Swedish peasant named Nils lived on an island called Iggön in the Baltic Sea. He was known to his neighbors as Rich Nils, apparently because of the plenitude of fish in ...

Space is the best place — maybe the only place — to get a complete picture of how climate change is affecting the Earth's oceans. And what... A satellite scheduled to launch from California later this ...