Earth's oceans stored more heat in 2025 than ever recorded, fueling sea level rise, extreme weather, and growing climate ...

Even if the world meets its most optimistic climate goals, rising sea levels will likely intensify throughout the 21st century and beyond, reshaping coastlines and threatening hundreds of millions of ...

What color is the ocean? Duke University researcher Haipeng Zhao posed the question rhetorically, but the answer is automatic for most: blue. This isn’t wrong. But it's not completely right, either.

Rising seas are quietly reshaping coastlines and threatening to erase species, according to the National Wildlife Federation. Scientists warn that, as oceans rise, plants and animals with nowhere to ...

Walking my dog on coastal beaches will never be the same since I learned about their precarious ecosystems. Beneath their sands lies a hidden world of microbial life that is critical in protecting the ...

How will climate change occurring this century influence future centuries? This is what a recent study published in Nature Climate Change hopes to address as an international team of scientists ...

In a shift that is reshaping entire ecosystems, the open oceans are letting less light in. We don't fully understand the ...

Norfolk, Virginia, floods on sunny days now. Not during hurricanes or nor’easters, but on ordinary high tides that push saltwater through storm drains and across neighborhood streets. The city sits in ...