The fate of the world’s biggest ice sheet rests in the hands of humanity, a new analysis has shown. If global heating is limited to 2C, the vast East Antarctic ice sheet should remain stable, but if…
Scattered scraggy palm trees blow in the sea breeze, and stone ruins rise from the sand, the last remnants of a village besieged by the sea. The coastal village of Fuveme, in Ghana's Volta region,…
Nearly 200,000 properties in England may have to be abandoned due to rising sea levels by 2050, a report says.
It looks at where water will cause most damage and whether defences are technically and…
Climate change is slowing down the conveyor belt of ocean currents that brings warm water from the tropics up to the north Atlantic. Our research, published today in Nature Climate Change, looks at…
Foreign minister Simon Kofe hopes the speech will demonstrate the reality for countries on the frontline
Tuvalu’s foreign minister has recorded a speech for the United Nations climate conference in…
Beachfront residents back the Collaroy wall but other locals worry the beach will disappear for longer periods as climate change increasingly drives coastal erosion.
“We really didn’t want to build…
Environmental disasters are increasingly a fact of life around the world. Each year, floods, droughts and landslides affect tens of millions of people, leaving vast human and economic destruction in…
Coastal areas in lower latitudes likely to be worst affected
Extreme sea level events will become 100 times more frequent by 2100 across many parts of the world as a result of rising global…
Alexandria, Egypt’s second-largest city and ancient capital, has long been threatened by rising sea levels. But in recent years, the rise has accelerated rapidly, endangering the economy, lives and…
‘Beyond 2050, sea level projections become increasingly sensitive to the emission choices we are making today’.
Lasting sea level rise has been set in motion and will be irreversible for hundreds to…
Another day, another cascade of high temperature records broken across the Pacific Northwest as a heat wave unlike any in recent memory continued into a third day.
In Washington, Oregon, and British…
Majority of land at risk from a 1-metre sea level rise is in the tropics, research finds
Up to 410 million people will be living in areas less than 2 metres above sea level, and at risk from sea…
A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature warns that if the world's governments fail to meet warming targets set by the Paris climate accord, sea level rise from the melting of the…
As the House of Saud marks the 5th anniversary of the launch of the Kingdom’s ground-breaking Vision 2030 project, Oliver Poole in Riyadh examines its impact and why success is needed if the world is…
Trekking out to my research sites near North Carolina's Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, I slog through knee-deep water on a section of trail that is completely submerged. Permanent flooding…
A new study is shedding light on just how much ice could be lost around Antarctica if the international community fails to urgently rein in planet-heating emissions, bolstering arguments for bolder…
Climate change is having an undeniable influence on coastal areas. A substantial proportion of the world’s sandy coastlines are already eroding owing to increased storm surges, flooding and sea level…
Warming of oceans due to greenhouse gas absorption may accelerate rise to beyond 1 metre by 2100.
Rising sea levels seem one of the more distant threats of the climate emergency, unless you live in…
Danish team predict possible 1.35m rise by 2100 and highlight issues with previous modelling.
The rise in the sea level is likely to be faster and greater than previously thought, according to…
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