A massive and surprising change is unfolding around Antarctica. Scientists have discovered that the Southern Ocean is getting saltier, and sea ice is melting at record speed, enough to match the size ...

The Earth's sea level is constantly increasing. A real flood may soon begin, because since 1880 the world’s ocean waters have ...

How a Warming World Is Reshaping Lives Climate change is no longer a far-off threat; now it’s here, and it’s transforming ...

With their country threatened by sea level rise, the people of Tuvalu have been offered an escape route through an agreement with Australia, and many are contemplating leaving their home ...

Rising sea levels, driven by climate change, pose a severe threat to low-lying nations, including island countries and ...

The Pacific Islands were well represented at the conference, with the Federated States of Micronesia, French Polynesia, Fiji, ...

The Vanuatu Daily Post reported the government formed its negotiating team this week because student's learning was being negatively affected. Pacific leaders have issued a unified call for urgent ...

Most of these islands are coral atolls, or ring-shaped reef islands that lie only a few meters above sea level. Some communities in Kiribati, Tuvalu, and the Marshall Islands are surrounded by ...

Scientists have a good idea how much average sea level will rise by 2050 — around 6 inches globally, and as much as 10 to 12 inches in the US. Past 2050, however, things get very fuzzy.

A sea level rise of 0.5 metres, which would submerge significant portions of these nations, could occur as soon as 2050 under a worst-case scenario, or more likely by 2070, and it was imperative ...