In the summer of 2022, 20 islands in the Maldives were flooded when a distant swell event in the Indian Ocean coincided with an extremely high tide level. A new and detailed analysis of that incident, ...

Sea levels could be up to 4.9 feet (1.5 metres) higher than scientists previously thought, a new study has warned, putting millions more people at risk from rising oceans. Earlier studies have relied ...

Scientists at the University of St Andrews are developing new radar techniques to improve predictions of sea level rise. The research focuses on reducing uncertainty around how oceans will respond to ...

Sea levels will drastically rise and push millions of buildings into danger if the world continues burning fossil fuels, a new report has warned. Researchers have conducted the first-ever large-scale, ...