David Legates was a Visiting Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment. The rise in mean global sea levels has been ongoing since the demise of the last Ice Age, ...

This article addresses the most current research on sea level rise, as well as adaptation measures being taken around the world. Of special interest, brilliant adaptation measures are taking place in ...

CALIFORNIA IS KNOWN for its beautiful beaches, and awe-inspiring coastline. But it is under threat because the global rate of ...

Every summer you go down the shore, but lately you’ve begun to notice that the beach seems narrower each time you visit. Is that the sea level rising, or is the sand just being swept away? Speaking of ...

Rob DeConto and his research group of postdocs and grad students study polar climate change, the role of glaciers and ice sheets in past and future sea-level change, and the impacts of sea-level rise ...

Cutting emissions in line with the 1.5°C warming limit, rather than following current climate policies, could curb long-term ...

Waves top the boardwalk at Mission Beach in San Diego during a king tide event in December 2023. Human-caused climate change is pushing global temperatures and global sea levels to new heights. In the ...

Highlighting seas that are rising at an accelerating rate, especially in the far more vulnerable Pacific island nations, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued yet another climate SOS to the ...

All across the world, sea levels are expected to rise in response to climate change. However, for the state of Delaware, sea level rise is especially concerning due to the state’s flat topography, low ...

In the mid-fifteen-hundreds, a Swedish peasant named Nils lived on an island called Iggön in the Baltic Sea. He was known to his neighbors as Rich Nils, apparently because of the plenitude of fish in ...