The Mediterranean Sea is heating up faster than ever before, and the consequences are already being felt. In places like ...

Sea levels are rising faster than at any point in the last 4,000 years, highlighting the urgent need for “global and local” action. New research has warned that climate change and human activities are ...

It’s not just that sea levels are rising. Scientists believe fossil fuel extraction and river engineering are also factors ...

Worldwide, millions of people live in river deltas that are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, research suggests.

The findings point to heightening near-term flood risk for more than 236 million people, but river delta flooding is an issue ...

A study published in Nature shows that many of the world's major river deltas are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, ...

Scientists say that hidden melting beneath Antarctica’s ice could rapidly reshape sea levels, but they do not know when.

From the Nile to the Mississippi, sinking land is compounding sea-level rise. A new study pinpoints where deltas are dropping ...

It’s usually a bad idea to generalize too much about anything – particularly science, where different selection pressures and environmental one-offs can tweak a basic model into something quite out of ...

Researchers analyzed 40 deltas across five continents, including the Mississippi, Mekong, Nile and Ganges–Brahmaputra systems ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from ...

A new study published in Nature finds human-driven land sinking now outpaces sea-level rise in many of the world’s major ...