A Field Museum scientist has developed a novel way to determine land elevation as continents moved around the Earth through geological ages. Knowing how high mountains and plateaus were in the past ...

More than 60% of the land most vulnerable to rising sea levels lies in the tropics, and hundreds of millions living in these areas will be at risk of flooding by 2100. The combination of sea-level ...

NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) has resumed measurements of the Earth's polar ice sheets, clouds, mountains and forests with the second of its three lasers. Crisscrossing the ...

Charlestonians have lived alongside water for centuries. Yet, 2021 is likely to be the first time in Charleston's history that water plays a dominant role in the city's future growth strategies. City ...

The Climate Shift Index (CSI), Climate Central’s daily temperature attribution system, applies the latest peer-reviewed methodology to map the influence of climate change on temperatures across the ...

Explore local sea level rise and coastal flooding risks worldwide with maps that use the most advanced available global model of coastal elevations. The Climate Shift Index: Tropical Cyclones ...

Q: What, if anything, fills the empty space underground created by the extraction of billions of gallons of oil? Could oil drilling be one of the causes of increasing amounts of land settling and ...