Marylanders can explore current and future coastal flooding risks around their property and community with a new mapping tool.

Researchers have modeled sea level changes on thousand-year timescales for the past 540 million years. These insights offer ...

Scientists reconstructed 540 million years of sea level changes, showing Earth's oceans rose and fell by hundreds of feet ...

While FEMA has improved the accuracy and accessibility of the maps over time with better data, digital tools and community input, the maps still don't capture everything.

Destructive flash flooding in Texas and other states is raising questions about the nation's flood maps and their ability to ensure that ...

As Tamil Nadu continues its breakneck urbanisation, a new decadal study commissioned by the State Planning Commission (SPC) has sounded alarm bells over rising ...

Recent research conducted by an international team of scientists from Utrecht University, the UK, and the US has resulted in ...

Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use ...

Earth’s major climate goal is too warm for the polar ice sheets, study says If Earth stays at its current levels of warming — below policymakers’ goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius — polar ice ...