Scientists found that sea levels rose rapidly 11,700 years ago due to melting ice sheets and sudden lake drainage.

Now, new geological data show that sea levels rose about 125 feet (38 meters) between 11,000 and 3,000 years ago, according ...

By determining which ice sheets melted to create a colossal increase in sea levels 14,500 years ago, scientists hope to ...

Sea ice melt is not a significant contributor to sea level rise, but its contribution is not nothing, either. Sea ice is ...

But as sea levels rise, driven in part by climate change, encroaching saltwater is disrupting the livelihoods of many farmers. It's… Panama prepares to relocate Indigenous residents of island ...

As climate change continues to drive global sea level rise, many people living in coastal areas are already seeing the effects. Coastal erosion is accelerating and shifting coastlines inland ...

and the rate of rise is getting faster and faster," said researcher Josh Willis of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Rising sea levels are among the consequences of human-induced climate change, and ...

Melting ice caps in North America, Antarctica and Europe caused sea levels to rise quickly as temperatures ... Now, new geological data show that sea levels rose about 125 feet (38 meters) between ...

In recent years, the observed rise in sea levels has been mainly caused by the first factor and less by the second, according to NASA. "But in 2024, those contributions flipped, with two-thirds ...