Explore what the world ... Climate. West Antarctica: Like the Greenland ice sheet, the West Antarctic one was apparently much smaller during earlier warm periods. It's vulnerable because most ...

Here is a depressing fact: over the coming decades, sea-level rise will continue to threaten ecosystems, communities and ...

Connecticut is just one state facing significant challenges as sea levels continue to rise because of climate change ... In ...

Climate change is amplified in the polar regions. The northern and southern reaches of the planet are warming faster than any area on Earth, with the Arctic ocean and air temperatures rising twice as ...

Over the past 20 years, glaciers worldwide have lost 273 billion tonnes of ice to a warming world, and this ... "Even small amounts of sea level rise matter because it leads to more frequent ...

Ice loss from the world's glaciers has accelerated over the past decade, scientists said on Wednesday, warning that melting ...

Sarah Kaplan and Bonnie Jo Mount traveled to four islands of the Seychelles and a geochemistry lab in Madison, Wis. to document how fossil corals are helping scientists predict future sea level rise.

Human-caused climate change ... Future sea-level rise is highly dependent on the severity of the global warming we see between now and 2100. Therefore, it is difficult to accurately predict sea-level ...

As greenhouse gases pile up in our air, the world's oceans are far from immune to the problem. First of all, with climate change comes ocean acidification, an increasingly serious threat to marine ...