sea level rise

The International Maritime Organization has been asked to enact a carbon levy of $150 per ton of emissions from large freight and passenger ships. The IMO’s 175 member nations have until next year to vote.

“We’re creating a world where these ice sheets are going to melt.”

A groundbreaking, global survey of more than 700 reporters and editors from 102 countries shows that nearly 40 per cent have faced threats for their work, while more than one in ten have been confronted with physical violence.

The state is spending big on adapting to sea level rise, but Republicans don't want to name the cause.

The seas are rising and coastal land is subsiding. That could expose hundreds of thousands of additional Americans to inundation by 2050.

Giant waves are becoming more common off California’s coast as the planet warms, according to innovative new research that tracked the surf's increasing height from historical data gathered over the past 90 years.

Around the world, communities are bracing for sea level rise: the Netherlands is stabilizing its dikes, Senegal is relocating neighbourhoods, Indonesia is moving its entire capital city. These projects are hefty, expensive and slow. But they may need to pick up the pace.

Experts say that even if the world stopped emitting greenhouse gases tomorrow, ocean levels would continue to rise.

The city is spending billions to protect Manhattan. Other boroughs, not so much.

A peer-reviewed paper proposes that the top 21 polluting companies pay $5.4 trillion over 26 years to compensate for climate damages.

New research by Australian scientists suggests a 40 per cent slowdown in just three decades could alter the world’s climate for centuries.

One of the great infrastructure challenges of the next few decades is to figure out which coastal sites should be abandoned and which can be saved. Lichens can help.

Turf wars between the microbes dictate how much carbon salt marshes store and how much methane they pump into the air.

The desire for waterfront property on Canada’s east coast is fuelling a shoreline building boom, as landowners and developers rush to beat pending regulations that could curb coastal development.

The painstakingly slow recovery of an Oregon marsh raises new worries about how delicate these ecosystems can be.