Rising sea levels might seem like someone else's problem if you live inland. But even miles from the coast, changing sea ...

President Donald Trump’s second term has been a nightmare for global cooperation on climate change. Trump has yanked the United States from the Paris climate agreement, attacked a global agreement on ...

The world’s oceans are rising at an accelerating pace, and scientists now say they can fully explain what’s driving it. Warming seawater is the biggest factor, while melting glaciers and polar ice ...

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 ...

The High-level Meeting on Sea Level Rise will convene global leaders, experts and other stakeholders to address the urgent and escalating threat of rising sea levels. This meeting will focus on ...

The United Nations General Assembly will convene a one-day High-level Plenary Meeting to strengthen international cooperation and collective action to address sea-level rise. The meeting will focus on ...

This submission to the Human Rights Advisory Committee highlights the diverse human rights impacts of sea-level rise, with particular reference to the impacts on people living in the low-lying atoll ...

Rising sea levels caused by climate change may be significantly higher than previously thought, according to a new study, which says a "methodological blind spot" led researchers to underestimate ...

World leaders adopted a landmark political declaration on sea-level rise at the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 24. Not only was the declaration a political victory for the small island ...

Sea level rise is likely to become one of the most hazardous, persistent, and expensive climate-related challenges in ...