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Water from the Greenland ice sheet is raising sea levels unevenly across the world.
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Hurricane Harvey packs political perils for Trump.
The stakes are high for President Donald Trump and other elected leaders, like Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. | Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images.
Political leaders often get...
The crime scene is underwater in Netflix’s new documentary thriller.
After filming in the piercing blue waters around Lizard Island in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in late 2016, diver Zack Rago had had enough....
The Dutch have solutions to rising seas. The world is watching.
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Exxon, Shell and other carbon producers sued for sea level rises in California.
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As a trio of lawsuits claim compensation for sea rises resulting from fossil fuel emissions, campaigners say carbon majors must change...
Pacific Ocean shift could see 1.5C limit breached within a decade
Global average temperatures could pass 1.5C above pre-industrial levels within the next decade, new projections suggest.
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When rising seas transform risk into certainty.
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As rising seas erode shorelines, Tasmania shows what can be lost.
By JUSTIN GILLISApril 26, 2017ISLE OF THE DEAD, Tasmania — Maybe the hardened convicts who carved the 19th-century gravestones dotting this tiny island were barely literate,...
US coastal growth continues despite lessons of past storms.
Rising sea levels and fierce storms have failed to stop relentless population growth along U.S. coasts in recent years, a new Associated Press analysis...
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