A new report led by NOAA warns that the country’s coasts will be hit by fast sea level rise between now and the year 2050. Researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency estimate that the ...

Since Hampton Roads was settled, it has fought a tug-of-war with its surrounding waters. Nowhere is this more evident than at Naval Station Norfolk, the world’s largest naval base. Naval Station ...

“It no longer takes severe weather to cause disruptive flooding along the coast,” NOAA’s National Ocean Service director Nicole LeBoeuf stated in 2023. What had previously been unimaginable now ...

In 2024, the hottest year in recorded history, sea levels rose at a rate 35% more than expected, according to a new report from NASA. The space agency explained on its website that the acceleration of ...

Consequences, they say, collect in low places. A new NASA analysis, using data collected from different specialized satellites, reports that sea levels rose more than expected in 2024. But as any ...

The concern around a 10 foot sea level rise is not only that it would flood major coastal cities, but also that vital service facilities like hospitals, fire stations and many others would be lost and ...

One reason that tide predictions were off: sea level rise. The tide charts used by sailors, city planners, surfers and ...

Sea level rise — mostly due to glacial melt largely caused by anthropogenic climate change — has been a hot button topic for the past half century. But historically defining the basic parameters of ...