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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine today announced an award of more than $7.3 million to support four interdisciplinary research projects ...
A slow-moving crisis of sinking land and rising water is playing out along America's coastline. In the past 100 years, sea levels have climbed about a foot or more in some U.S. cities – 11 inches in ...
The tsunami advisory for the West Coast, spanning California, Oregon, parts of Washington, Alaska and Hawaii on Tuesday sparked emergency evacuations. Tsunami sirens sounded off in many areas, ...
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 ...
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 ...