Along the Atlantic seaboard, more than 135 million Americans live in a zone where the ocean is no longer rising steadily but ...

Along the Atlantic seaboard, a quiet shift in the ocean’s internal machinery is stacking the odds for faster, more punishing ...

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The 20th anniversary of the annual report tracks how sea ice, snow cover and many other vital signs of the Arctic have ...

Across many parts of Africa’s Atlantic coastline, the sea is advancing several metres inland each year, destroying homes, ...

The new dataset, published in Earth System Science Data by 16 scientists, shows a significantly cooler Earth from the late ...

(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 ...

On a road warped by melting permafrost and pocked with puddles, James Schaeffer, 7, breaks off ice to play with. It is late ...

Florida barrier islands host 765,000+ residents as development raises hurricane, erosion and insurance risks while taxpayers fund repeated beach restorations.

A newly identified sponge group called Vilesida is giving scientists a clearer view of animal origins, linking sponges with ...

Collecting historic maps is my primary obsession. I got started at the University of Arkansas when working on my master's thesis by preparing a series of surface geologic maps of the Keefer Mountain ...