sea level rise

When the Meghna River swallowed Mohammad Jewel and Arzu Begum’s tin-roofed family home overnight in southern Bangladesh just over a year ago they had no choice but to leave their ancestral village.

António Guterres says growing north and south divide is ‘morally unacceptable’ and dangerous.

These are the homes that may not end up being saved because it would be very expensive to try, using measures such as seawalls and other coastal defences.

Makadunyiswe Ngulube is studying how natural plants can soften the devastating effects of sea level rise.

David Holland is set to reach the Thwaites Glacier in the coming days, one of the most unstable glaciers in Antarctica, where he will set up a base for a month-long research project.

“Tuvalu is in the front lines of climate change. We are living climate change in our daily lives. We have our land fast disappearing, and our islands are sinking,” Tuvalu Minister for Finance Seve Paeniu tells the UN climate summit in Glasgow.

The massive melting of glaciers has tilted Earth's rotation, showing the impact human activities are having on the planet.

Parts of British Columbia could see massive losses if the province doesn’t start planning for flooding as ocean waters rise and storms surge due to climate change, according to a researcher at the University of British Columbia.

Inundation and flooding are steadily becoming more likely. Worldwide rise being driven by melting of large glaciers.

From melting ice caps to record-breaking wildfires, hurricanes and floods, the deadly consequences of human-caused global warming are here.

“The impacts of a changing Arctic are not confined to those who live there,” researchers wrote in the 14th annual Arctic Report Card.

As 17-year-old Julia Sampson stood amid a climate protest crowd swelling into the thousands, the Nova Scotia organizer said she and her peers are weary of an unresponsive older generation of political leaders in the region.

Italian physicist Enrico Fermi had a knack for back-of-the-envelope calculations. In a famous lunch-time conversation in 1950, Fermi used his knowledge of astronomy and probability to highlight a problem: If intelligent life exists elsewhere in the galaxy and if long-distance space travel is achievable, then Earth should have been visited by aliens by now.

A non-partisan federal watchdog says climate change is already costing U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars each year.