1 / 3 Logs are seen piled up along Sidney’s waterfront on Monday in the wake of a weekend storm. Ocean levels remain high and more rain is in the forecast. Story, A4 ADRIAN LAM, TIMES COLONIST ...

While global average sea levels rose by just 0.23 inches in 2024, that was above the expected rate of 0.17 inches and comes at a time when coastal communities in many parts of the U.S. have been ...

For around 2,000 years, global sea levels hardly varied. That changed in the twentieth century. Sea levels started rising and have not stopped since — and now, the pace is accelerating.

The reason for this is rising sea levels, brought about by climate change. The president of Kiribati looked to buy land in Fiji in 2012 as “climate change insurance” for the island’s population.

Brooke Jarvis considers the history behind the search for sea level, as described in a new book by Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, and probes what it tells us about science, global warming, and life on ...

Oceans last year reached their highest levels in three decades — with the rate of global sea level rise increasing around 35 percent higher than expected, according to a NASA-led analysis ...