Global mean sea level has risen 101 millimeters (3.98 inches) since 1992, and it continues to do so at 3.9 mm (0.15 inches) per year.
Published Aug 11, 2022
Where the Netherlands meets the North Sea, there is an impressive confluence of natural and man-made features.
Published Sep 6, 2021
The globe is warming, ice is melting, but that doesn't mean that an ocean will be returning to Vermont anytime soon.
Published Aug 3, 2021
While scientists have grown more confident about projections of sea level rise for the next few decades, many competing factors make it hard to see far into the coastal future.
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Datasets from the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite will build upon three decades of sea level measurements.
Published Jun 22, 2021
The unexpected discovery of a whale skeleton hundreds of miles from the sea and more than 200 feet above sea level in 1849 is a reminder of how much sea level can change.
Published May 19, 2021
Sinking land, rising seas, and rainfall-driven floods pose big problems for Indonesia’s largest city.
Published May 12, 2021
A city full of cultural, historical, and architectural riches has gone to great lengths to protect itself from floods.
Published May 10, 2021
A new artificial island near Malé could be a destination for people trying to escape rising waters on lower-lying islands.
Published Apr 9, 2021
Sea level rise and new development are on a collision course in South Carolina lowcountry.
Published Jan 11, 2021
While there are efforts to reinforce its beaches and marshes, some of Barataria Bay is slowly slipping away.
Published Jan 4, 2021
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich will extend a nearly 30-year continuous dataset on sea surface height.
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This island’s rugged topography and dense rainforest has led most of its inhabitants to live along the coastline.
Published Nov 7, 2020
The ocean is lumpy and sloshes around its basins for natural reasons. But it is also rising, slowly and steadily.
Published Nov 5, 2020
Earth’s surface may seem motionless most of the time, but an array of measurements show that natural and human-caused processes cause coastal land to rise and fall.
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Scientists project ice losses from the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets will play a large part in sea level rise in the upcoming century.
Published Nov 5, 2020
Scientists measure ice’s gravitational pull on a pair of satellites, allowing them to estimate ice loss and its contribution to sea level rise.
Published Nov 5, 2020
Millions of people in the state live in low-lying coastal areas where land subsidence is exacerbating the risks of sea level rise.
Published Oct 23, 2020
Rising waters are swallowing up another island in Chesapeake Bay.
Published Dec 2, 2019
It snowed more, but the mass gained only compensates for some of the ice being lost in Antarctica.
Published Dec 26, 2018
Satellites detect changes in the height and velocity of ice in an area that was thought to be relatively stable and quiet.
Published Dec 11, 2018
The acceleration has been driven mainly by increased ice melting in Greenland and Antarctica, and it has the potential to double the total sea level rise projected by 2100.
Published Feb 20, 2018
Known as the rural side of New Orleans, the landscape is largely marshes and bayous and old European names.
Published Jun 12, 2017
The Maldives rise just a few meters above the surrounding ocean.
Published Jan 15, 2017
Through a combination of airborne radar and ground-based GPS, a research team has developed detailed models of how much land is sinking and rising in southern Louisiana.
Published May 25, 2016
Global sea level rise poses very local challenges for the many NASA centers situated on U.S. coasts.
Published Sep 30, 2015
The nation’s problem is also NASA’s problem: Half to two-thirds of our space infrastructure and assets stand within 5 meters of sea level.
Published Sep 8, 2015
A summer field campaign examines the hydrology of the water streaming across the top of the ice sheet.
Published Aug 30, 2015
Sea level rise is not just an academic concern for NASA satellites and scientists. With two-thirds of its infrastructure and assets situated on the coast, the agency has first-hand experience with the effects of rising waters.
Published Aug 26, 2015
Plane-mounted radar and other instruments are studying the shrinking and growing wetlands along the Gulf Coast.
Published Jun 25, 2015
