These massive cities are sinking into the ocean as climate change fuels rising sea levels all around the world.

As climate change continues to intensify rising sea levels pose a significant risk to many coastal cities around the globe.

Here is a depressing fact: over the coming decades, sea-level rise will continue to threaten ecosystems, communities and cities. No matter how quickly we reduce our carbon emissions, our past ...

New research has found that melting Antarctic ice sheets are slowing down the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC)—the world’s ...

But how much and how fast will sea level rise? To answer this question, scientists have come up with two fundamentally different approaches to model sea level rise. The first is physical models ...

The height of the coral — which can grow only underwater — marks where the ocean once reached, and where it could someday rise again. Sarah Kaplan and Bonnie Jo Mount traveled to four islands ...

The speed at which new ocean floor is created varies from one location on the ocean ridge to another ... At the East Pacific rise, which is pushing a plate into the west coast of South America ...

The basement was formed about 60 million years ago at the mid-ocean ridge crest, and the uplift of the ridge and opening of Kings Trough occurred about 27 million years ago.