Sea Level Rise

All this time I've been worrying about what will happen to my kids as a result of climate change. It was clear to me that we needed some really innovative, out-of-the-box solutions. Turns out we can just legislate it away.

Experts predict that the effects of climate change may have the greatest impact on low-lying, and often developing nations, but countries like the Uni...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Antarctica's massive ice shelves are shrinking because they are being eaten away from below by warm water, a new study finds. That...

New polls show an uptick in concern about climate change among Americans, a majority of whom now believe that global warming and climate change contribute to increasingly worse US weather, from heat waves and drought to record snowfalls

By Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer: Dramatic warming at the end of the last ice age produced an intense rise in sea level and a massive ic...

As the nation's water quality and supply are increasingly at risk from a range of climate change impacts -- more can and should be done at a state level. Planning is just a first step.

Despite our small contribution to global environmental pollution, Pakistan stands as one of the most vulnerable countries to global warming.

By Joseph Castro, LiveScience Staff Writer: The world's oceans have been warming for more than 100 years, twice as long as previously believed, new...

The common thread in these trends is that we cannot afford to continue policy debates about whether climate change is real. Scientists have spoken. Governments have spoken. Markets have spoken.

LONDON (Reuters) - The collapse of an ice sheet in Antarctica up to 14,650 years ago might have caused sea levels to rise between 14 and 18 meters (46...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Global warming is leading to such severe storms, droughts and heat waves that nations should prepare for an unprecedented onslaugh...

Washington, D.C.'s famed cherry blossoms -- now celebrating their centennial -- decided to spring one on visitors, peaking well before the arrival of most Cherry Blossom Festival-goers.

Here are just a few of the ways climate change is expected to impact water -- and everything on earth that depends on it.

The Post story included the what, who, where and how of basic journalism. What was missing was the why. Why is sea level rising and eroding the beach in Chincoteague?

Climate change may be controversial but state and local agencies and utility-giant Entergy Corp. are beginning to adapt to new weather trends. Adaptation could be key to the coast's future.

Coastal communities are running out of real estate. Sea level rise threatens coastal communities with increased floods, erosion and displacement. To p...

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We will be fighting climate change, but it's more than that -- we will be creating better neighborhoods, schools, and cities, and moving toward a brighter future sustained by a green economy.

Our hearts are with those who have lost loved ones and are left with damaged homes, businesses and communities in the days that Hurricane Irene moved up the East Coast.

A new paper estimates that "fracking" produces relatively few greenhouse gas emissions, and that the emissions due to extracting the gas are small in comparison to the emissions from burning it.

Coral Reefs are in deep trouble due to warming and acidifying oceans, but they may not be in as much danger as previously thought.