Overuse has created zones of “mega-drying” around the world — and caused more sea level rise than Greenland’s ice sheet.

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The nation of Tuvalu has created an ambitious plan to relocate its entire population and preserve key cultural and historic ...

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A recent study in Nature Geoscience offers important new insights into the hidden role of ancient groundwater beneath the ...

So that’s equivalent to obviously raising sea level in that instant of time. Miller: Wow, that that could be as much as 80 years of potential incremental sea level rise, in three minutes.

Residents and environmental advocates confront a decades-in-the-making binational pollution crisis that continues to plague ...

Contributors to sea-level rise. Climate.gov Water level data collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration at gauges distributed along the U.S. coast indicates the average rate of ...