The period’s average rate — 3.3 millimetres per year — is often cited when discussing sea-level rise, but the authors write that the figure is “increasingly misleading”. Using recent ...

As a former fisherman and now a fishmonger, Neel Abesinghe has made a living, and fed his family, from the sea for 25 years. The seas around Sri Lanka are rich with marine life, thanks to its ...

But how much and how fast will sea level rise? To answer this question, scientists have come up with two fundamentally different approaches to model sea level rise. The first is physical models ...

Hundreds of polar researchers issue an emergency statement calling for urgent action to deal with the impacts of climate ...

if sea levels continue to rise at current rates, the land may be able to naturally adapt to these changes. Global sea-level rise is predicted to accelerate, however, over the course of the 21st ...

The question of sea-level rise was one of the most controversial issues raised by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), when it published its fifth assessment report in 2013.

Is that the sea level rising, or is the sand just being swept away? Speaking of sea levels, you keep hearing that they rise higher every year — but how exactly is that measured? After all ...