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Mangrove Forests Fight Climate Change—But Climate Change Is Fighting Back

Mangroves store vast amounts of climate-warming carbon. Sea level rise may push them past the brink, according to a new study.

By Kiley Price

A shrinking mangrove forest is seen at the edge of the Freetown Peninsula coastline in Sierra Leone on April 12. Credit: Gemma Bonfiglioli/AFP via Getty Images
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill speaks during a Center for American Progress conference on May 19 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

In New Jersey, Sherrill Agrees to Delay Protections Against Sea Level Rise

By Emilie Lounsberry

A woman sweeps floodwater out of her home on Sept. 11, 2024, in Houma, La. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

As Seas Rise, Louisiana Faces a Choice: Plan for Movement or Let Crisis Decide

By Avery Schuyler Nunn

Coastal flooding hits the Jersey Shore in Avalon on Oct. 12, 2025. Credit: Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images

Sea Level Rise and Sunny-Day Flooding Can’t Stop a Building Boom on the Jersey Shore

By Emilie Lounsberry

The shore of Mill Point Park is located blocks from City Hall in Hampton, Va. The city is building a sandy marsh over the rocks that currently line the shore, and experimenting with new types of protective sills to gently buffer incoming waves. Credit: Phred Dvorak/Inside Climate News

Can a Flood-Prone Coastal City Learn to Live With Water?

By Phred Dvorak

A nor’easter causes large waves to hit a bluff filled with sand to prevent erosion in Nantucket, Mass., on Feb. 13, 2024. Credit: Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management Unveils 50-Year Plan to Protect Coastlines from Rising Seas and Extreme Weather

By Ryan Krugman

Luna Angulo, born and raised in Richmond, Calif., stands in front of a site where long-defunct chemical plants dumped toxic wastes, near another hazardous site likely to flood as sea level rises along the city’s shoreline. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

As Seas Rise, So Do the Risks From Toxic Sites

By Liza Gross

Severe flooding hits Palisades Medical Center in Hudson County, N.J., on Oct. 30. Credit: Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images

Sea-Level Rise Accelerates in New Jersey, Raising Coastal Flooding Risk, Study Says

By Jon Hurdle

Kristi Naquin shows wind damaged screens at her home, built as part of the first federally funded relocation project in the United States. Naquin was among the more than 30 residents who used to live along the Louisiana coastline at Isle de Jean Charles, a mostly Indigenous community. Naquin says the 3-year-old homes are substandard. Credit: Jeffrey Basinger/Floodlight

As Millions Face Climate Relocation, the Nation’s First Attempt Sparks Warnings and Regret

By Terry L. Jones and Evan Simon, Floodlight

A digitally rendered image of Terranova’s robot, called the Atlas 3. Credit: Courtesy of Terranova

Can an AI-Guided Robot Help a California City Resist Sea Level Rise and Sequester Carbon?

By Jennifer Ugwa

A wall made of boulders protects portions of Sipayik’s eastern coast from tidal erosion in Maine. Credit: Sydney Cromwell/Inside Climate News

In Far Northeastern Maine, a Native Community Fights to Adapt to Climate Change

By Sydney Cromwell

A crew works to construc a sea wall to reduce the risk of coastal flooding and erosion due to sea level rise on March 4 in La Baule, France. Credit: Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images

New Climate Study Highlights Dire Sea Level Warnings

By Bob Berwyn

Dune restoration has stabilized an area separating Hither Creek from the Atlantic Ocean in Madaket, Nantucket. Credit: Jennifer Karberg/Nantucket Conservation Foundation

How Nantucket Is Preparing for Rising Seas

By Nicole Williams

A view of a flood-prone neighborhood in Atlantic City, N.J. Credit: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images

As Summer Approaches, New Jersey’s Shore Towns Confront an Unrelenting Foe: Sea Level Rise

By Emilie Lounsberry

A slurry mix of sand and seawater is pumped onto the main public beach during a sand replenishment project for eroding shoreline related to sea level rise on Nov. 21, 2024 in San Clemente, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Paris Agreement Target for Warming Won’t Protect Polar Ice Sheets, Scientists Warn

By Bob Berwyn

An aerial view of the Solimoes River, a tributary of the Amazon River that’s in a critical state during a historic drought, in the Brazilian state of Amazonas on Sept. 30, 2024. Credit: Michael Dantas/AFP via Getty Images

Earth’s Land Masses Are Drying Out Fast, Scientists Warn

By Bob Berwyn

“Thwaites really is considered ground zero for the possibility of accelerated sea level rise this century.” Credit: Elizabeth Rush

Q&A: What an Author’s Trip to the Antarctic Taught Her About Climate—and Collective Action

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Photo illustration by Derek Harrison. Photographs by Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group; Giuseppe Cacace/AFP; Olivier Morin/AFP; Yuan Hongyan/VCG via Getty Images

2023 in Climate News: Did Renewable Energy’s Surge Keep Pace With a Radically Warming Climate?

By ICN Staff

Greenland Ice Cap

Scientists Foresee Much Higher Sea-Level Rise

By Alister Doyle, Reuters

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