Sea Level Rise

Sinking Land and Rising Seas Threaten Manila Bay’s Coastal Communities

Groundwater pumping in the Philippines is causing coastal land to sink while the razing of mangrove forest has left the area vulnerable to bigger storm surges from the rising seas.

By James Whitlow Delano

New Florida Legislation Will Help the State Brace for Rising Sea Levels, but Doesn’t Address Its Underlying Cause

By Amy Green, WMFE

New Federal Report Warns of Accelerating Impacts From Sea Level Rise

By Bob Berwyn

Maryland, Virginia Lawmakers Spearhead Drive to Make the Chesapeake Bay a National Recreation Area

By Tigist Ashaka

Indigenous Tribes Facing Displacement in Alaska and Louisiana Say the U.S. Is Ignoring Climate Threats

By Dalia Faheid

The Riverkeeper’s Quest to Protect the Delaware River Watershed as the Rains Fall and Sea Level Rises

By Daelin Brown

To Flee, or to Stay Until the End and Be Swallowed by the Sea

By Dalia Faheid, Katie Livingstone

New York Embarks on a Massive Climate Resiliency Project to Protect Manhattan’s Lower East Side From Sea Level Rise

By Brahmjot Kaur

Without ‘Transformative Adaptation’ Climate Change May Threaten the Survival of Millions of Small Scale Farmers

By Georgina Gustin

The Acceleration of an Antarctic Glacier Shows How Global Warming Can Rapidly Break Up Polar Ice and Raise Sea Level

By Bob Berwyn

DeSantis Recognizes the Threat Posed by Climate Change, but Hasn’t Embraced Reducing Carbon Emissions

By James Bruggers, Amy Green

Long-lost Core Drilled to Prepare Ice Sheet to Hide Nuclear Missiles Holds Clues About a Different Threat

By Bob Berwyn

Warming Trends: Composting the Dead to Help Soils and the Climate, Musk’s Contest to Clean Carbon From the Atmosphere and Posters for Holidays on Flooded Shorelines

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Global Ice Loss on Pace to Drive Worst-Case Sea Level Rise

By Bob Berwyn

Many Scientists Now Say Global Warming Could Stop Relatively Quickly After Emissions Go to Zero

By Bob Berwyn

In Georgia, Buffeted by Hurricanes and Drought, Climate Change Is on the Ballot

By James Bruggers

Maui Has Begun the Process of Managed Retreat. It Wants Big Oil to Pay the Cost of Sea Level Rise.

By David Hasemyer

Battered, Flooded and Submerged: Many Superfund Sites are Dangerously Threatened by Climate Change

By DAVID HASEMYER, INSIDECLIMATE NEWS, AND LISE OLSEN, TEXAS OBSERVER

‘At the Forefront of Climate Change,’ Hoboken, New Jersey, Seeks Damages From ExxonMobil

By David Hasemyer