Topic - Sea level rise

In Miami Beach (above), as elsewhere on the U.S. East Coast, flooding from seasonal high tides has been made worse in recent years by rising seas.

Flooding Hot Spots: Why Seas Are Rising Faster on the U.S. East Coast

By Jim Morrison

Islanders estimate that about half of the population have already moved from Isle de Jean Charles, including 42-year-old Keith Brunet, who moved his wife and two children from this house to Houma. He had mucked enough mud out of his house from hurricanes to call it quits on his island home. "You get tired of it," he said in February 2018.

On the Louisiana Coast, A Native Community Sinks Slowly into the Sea

By Ted Jackson

E360 Video

On the Chesapeake, A Precarious Future of Rising Seas and High Tides

On a Cuban Reef, A Precarious Partnership on Scientific Research

By Diane Toomey

Sea level rise has worsened high tide flooding in Venice, submerging wide areas of the city such as the iconic Piazza San Marco, seen here in 2008.

Rising Waters: Can a Massive Barrier Save Venice from Drowning?

By Jeff Goodell

Sea level rise has shrunk India's Ghoramara Island from nearly 8 square miles to 2 square miles in recent decades.

Opinion

Taking the Long View: The ‘Forever Legacy’ of Climate Change

By Rob Wilder and Dan Kammen

Ruins on Scotland's Rousay Island coast, which is eroding because of sea level rise and intensifying storms.

Heritage at Risk: How Rising Seas Threaten Ancient Coastal Ruins

By Adam Markham

Interview

As Seas Rise, Tropical Pacific Islands Face a Perfect Storm

By Richard Schiffman

Vegetation is returning to this Elwha River valley in Washington state after two dams were removed.

Why the World’s Rivers Are Losing Sediment and Why It Matters

By Jim Robbins

Homes in Mantoloking, New Jersey, off of Barnegat Bay, damaged by Sandy in 2012.

How Rising Seas and Coastal Storms Drowned the U.S. Flood Insurance Program

By Gilbert M. Gaul

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam under construction in 2015. The 6,000-megawatt dam, now nearing completion, will be Africa's largest.

Water

The Vanishing Nile: A Great River Faces a Multitude of Threats

By Richard Conniff

Marvin Thomas, a longtime civic activist, stands at a Southbridge intersection that has flooded repeatedly in recent years.

Before the Storm

A Vulnerable Community Braces for the Impacts of Sea Level Rise

By Bruce Stutz

Ecologist David Kaplan surveys dying coastal trees in the Withlacoochee Gulf Preserve in Yankeetown, Florida.

Ghost Forests

How Rising Seas Are Killing Southern U.S. Woodlands

By Roger Drouin

Arctic Ocean sea ice melt as seen from the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Cutter Healy.

The Global Impacts of Rapidly Disappearing Arctic Sea Ice

By Peter Wadhams

Thousands of Homes Keep Flooding, Yet They Keep Being Rebuilt Again

By Katherine Bagley

West Antarctica’s glaciers and floating ice shelves are becoming increasingly unstable.

Climate Consequences

Abrupt Sea Level Rise Looms As Increasingly Realistic Threat

By Nicola Jones

A view of downtown Rotterdam, the Netherlands. “Fighting water is a war you never win,” says one Dutch official. View gallery.

A Tale of Two Northern European Cities: Meeting the Challenges of Sea Level Rise

By Daniel Grossman and Photos by Alex MacLean

A dike, the green strip along the coast, protects flower fields and wind turbines in the northern Netherlands.

PHOTO GALLERY

A Tale of Two Northern European Cities: Meeting the Challenge of Sea Level Rise

By Photos by Alex MacLean

North Miami, Fla., is one of the cities on the U.S. East Coast with sea level rise well above the global average.

Rising Waters

How Fast and How Far Will Sea Levels Rise?

By Nicola Jones

In Low-Lying Bangladesh, The Sea Takes a Human Toll

Living on shifting land formed by river deltas, the people of Bangladesh have a tenuous hold on their environment, with cyclones buffeting coastal zones and rising seas posing a looming threat. But, as this Yale Environment 360 video report by Jonathan Bjerg Møller makes clear, many Bangladeshis already are suffering as a growing population occupies increasingly vulnerable lands.