More than 5,500 toxic and hazardous sites across the United States are projected to be at risk of coastal flooding as a result of rising sea levels by 2100, with nearly 3,800 facing similar danger as ...

Sea levels along the United States coast are rising faster than they did in the past, and the change is not subtle.

For around 2,000 years, global sea levels varied little. That changed in the 20th century. They started rising and have not stopped since — and the pace is accelerating. Scientists are scrambling to ...

Global sea levels have not continued to rise at the rates predicted by many scientists — and there is no evidence that climate change has contributed to any such acceleration, a new first-of-its-kind ...