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IPCC AR6 Sea Level Projection Tool

| NASA Sea Level Change Team | 2021 This NASA tool provides access to global and regional sea-level projections from the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, allowing users to compare future sea-level outcomes under different emissions scenarios.

NOAA Sea level rise infographics

Sea Level Rise Viewer

| NOAA Office for Coastal Management | Interactive Tool This NOAA tool lets users visualize possible local impacts from sea-level rise and coastal flooding. It is especially useful for showing how global sea-level rise translates into community-level flood exposure.

Surging Seas: Sea Level Rise Analysis

| Climate Central | Interactive Explainer This Climate Central resource explains the basic facts of sea-level rise and provides tools for exploring coastal flood risks. It is useful for connecting global sea-level trends with local exposure and storm-surge hazards.

Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flood Risk Maps — A Global Screening Tool

| Climate Central | Interactive Tool This global mapping tool shows areas exposed to sea-level rise and coastal flooding using elevation and flood-risk data. It is useful for visualizing how rising seas affect communities around the world.

Extreme Weather Toolkit: Coastal Flooding

| Climate Central | Toolkit This toolkit explains how sea-level rise makes coastal flooding more frequent and damaging. It is useful as a plain-language background source on the link between rising seas, storm surge, high tides, and coastal risk.

Science Explainers

‘Severe’ Stress on Oceans as Rate of Sea Level Rise Doubles in 10 Years, UN Warns

| The Guardian | June 8, 2026 This article reports on the UN’s third World Ocean Assessment, which warns that the rate of sea-level rise has roughly doubled over the past decade. It connects rising seas with ocean warming, pollution, overfishing, and the growing vulnerability of coastal populations worldwide.

The Sea Is Higher Than We Thought and Millions More Are at Risk, Study Finds

| Associated Press | March 4, 2026 This article covers a study finding that many coastal-risk assessments may underestimate real-world sea levels, meaning tens of millions more people could be exposed to flooding and long-term sea-level rise than previously assumed.

Global Sea Levels Have Been Underestimated Due to Poor Modelling, Research Suggests

| The Guardian | March 4, 2026 This article reports on research showing that commonly used global sea-level baselines may underestimate local coastal water heights, especially in parts of the Global South, Southeast Asia, and the Indo-Pacific.

Scientists Reveal Our Best and Worst-Case Scenarios for a Warming Antarctica

| British Antarctic Survey | February 20, 2026 This article compares possible futures for Antarctica under different warming pathways. It explains how Antarctic changes could affect global sea level, ocean circulation, ecosystems, and coastal communities worldwide.

Guest Post: The Challenges in Projecting Future Global Sea Levels

| Carbon Brief | February 17, 2026 This article explains why future sea-level projections remain uncertain, especially because of difficult-to-model ice-sheet processes in Antarctica and Greenland. It also summarizes how ocean warming, melting land ice, and changing land water storage contribute to rising seas.

NASA Analysis Shows La Niña Limited Sea Level Rise in 2025

| NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | January 29, 2026 This NASA analysis explains why global mean sea-level rise slowed in 2025 compared with 2024, while emphasizing that the long-term trend remains upward because of ocean warming and melting land ice.

State of the Climate: 2025 in Top-Three Hottest Years on Record as Ocean Heat Surges

| Carbon Brief | January 14, 2026 This article places sea-level rise within the broader 2025 climate record, noting that modern sea levels reached new highs as ocean heat, melting glaciers, and ice-sheet loss continued to increase.

Earth’s Frozen Regions Are Sending a Clear Warning About Climate Change — But Politicians Are Ignoring It

| British Antarctic Survey | January 8, 2026 This article explains how melting ice from glaciers and ice sheets is driving faster sea-level rise. It also connects sea-level acceleration with broader cryosphere changes, including glacier loss, permafrost thaw, and polar ecosystem disruption.

Global and European Sea Level Rise

| European Environment Agency | November 26, 2025 This indicator page summarizes global and European sea-level trends, noting accelerating global mean sea-level rise and outlining projected increases under different emissions pathways.

Rapid Emissions Cuts Would Avoid 64cm of ‘Locked In’ Sea Level Rise by 2300

| Carbon Brief | October 24, 2025 This article summarizes research showing that strong near-term emissions cuts could substantially reduce long-term sea-level rise already being committed for future centuries.

Antarctica’s Message to the World: Scientists Sound Alarm on Extreme Events and Tipping Points

| British Antarctic Survey | September 29, 2025 This article explains how Antarctic ice-sheet thresholds could produce large long-term sea-level rise. It also describes wider Antarctic climate risks, including ecosystem changes and extreme events.

Sea Level — Earth Indicator

| NASA Science | September 25, 2025 This NASA indicator page summarizes the latest satellite-based sea-level measurements and explains how melting land ice and warming oceans are driving the observed rise in global sea level.

Rapid Loss of Antarctic Ice May Be Climate Tipping Point, Scientists Say

| Reuters | August 20, 2025 This article reports on warnings that rapid Antarctic ice loss could represent a climate tipping point, with implications for future sea-level rise, ocean circulation, and global weather patterns.

Ice Sheets and Sea Level Rise — What We Know and Why It Matters

| Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling | July 17, 2025 This article explains how ice sheets contribute to sea-level rise, why Antarctica and Greenland are central to future projections, and why satellite monitoring is important for tracking ice loss.

New Climate Study Highlights Dire Sea Level Warnings

| Inside Climate News | June 13, 2025 This article reports on research using ancient fossil coral reefs to better understand how polar ice sheets behaved during past warm periods. It warns that current warming could produce higher and faster sea-level rise than many coastal planners expect.

Paris Agreement Target for Warming Won’t Protect Polar Ice, Scientists Say

| Inside Climate News | May 21, 2025 This article covers scientific warnings that even the Paris Agreement’s warming targets may not be enough to prevent major polar ice loss and long-term sea-level rise.

Record 2024 Temperatures Accelerate Ice Loss, Rise in Sea Levels, UN Weather Body Says

| Reuters | March 19, 2025 This article summarizes WMO findings that 2024’s record heat accelerated glacier loss, ocean warming, and sea-level rise, with the annual sea-level-rise rate in the most recent decade far above the rate in the early satellite era.

NASA Analysis Shows Unexpected Amount of Sea Level Rise in 2024

| NASA Sea Level Change Team | March 13, 2025 This NASA article reports that global sea level rose faster than expected in 2024, driven largely by thermal expansion as unusually warm ocean water took up more space.

Melting Glaciers Caused Almost 2cm of Sea Level Rise This Century, Study Reveals

| The Guardian | February 19, 2025 This article reports on a global glacier study showing that glacier melt has already contributed nearly two centimeters to sea-level rise since 2000, with the pace of loss increasing in recent decades.

The Rate of Global Sea Level Rise Doubled During the Past Three Decades

| NASA Earthdata | February 5, 2025 This article explains satellite evidence showing that the rate of global mean sea-level rise has roughly doubled since the early 1990s, with continued acceleration expected if current trends persist.

New Research Led by James Hansen Documents Global Warming Acceleration

| Inside Climate News | February 4, 2025 This article discusses research arguing that accelerating warming and polar ice melt could raise the risk of major sea-level impacts, especially if ocean circulation changes amplify regional coastal rise.

Ancient Antarctic Ice Loss Offers Insights into Future Climate Scenarios

| British Antarctic Survey | January 29, 2025 This article describes research on past Antarctic ice-sheet retreat and explains why the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is vulnerable to warm seawater flowing beneath ice shelves. It helps connect geological evidence with future sea-level projections.

The Rate of Global Sea Level Rise Doubled During the Past Three Decades

| Communications Earth & Environment | November 18, 2024 This study finds that the rate of global sea-level rise more than doubled over the satellite record from 1993 to 2024, showing a clear acceleration in global mean sea-level change.

New Tipping Point Discovered Beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet

| British Antarctic Survey | June 25, 2024 This science article explains how warm seawater can seep beneath grounded Antarctic ice and accelerate melting from below. It is useful for understanding why some ice-sheet losses may not be fully captured in older models.

Is Sea Level Rising?

| NOAA Ocean Service | June 16, 2024 This NOAA explainer describes the two main causes of global sea-level rise: thermal expansion of warming seawater and the melting of land-based ice. It provides a concise, reader-friendly explanation of the basic science.

What Are the Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios for Sea Level Rise?

| MIT Climate Portal | June 12, 2024 This article explains why sea-level projections vary so widely, especially because of uncertainty about future ice-sheet behavior. It gives a useful science-based comparison of lower- and higher-end sea-level-rise outcomes.

Climate Change: Global Sea Level

| NOAA Climate.gov | April 19, 2024 This NOAA overview explains the observed rise in global average sea level, the role of warming oceans and melting land ice, and the increasing risk of coastal flooding.

NASA Analysis Sees Spike in 2023 Global Sea Level Due to El Niño

| NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | March 21, 2024 This NASA article explains the large jump in global average sea level from 2022 to 2023, linking it to long-term warming as well as short-term El Niño conditions.

Ice Cores Reveal Rapid Antarctic Ice Loss in the Past

| British Antarctic Survey | February 8, 2024 This article explains how ice cores can reveal earlier episodes of Antarctic ice loss. It connects evidence from the past to current concerns about how quickly the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could retreat.

What You Need to Know About Blue Carbon

| World Bank | November 21, 2023 This article explains the role of mangroves, salt marshes, and seagrasses in storing carbon and protecting coasts. It connects ocean warming, sea-level rise, and coastal ecosystems as part of climate resilience.

Q&A: Warming of 2C Would Trigger ‘Catastrophic’ Loss of World’s Ice, New Report Says

| Carbon Brief | November 16, 2023 This article summarizes a cryosphere report warning that warming near 2°C could cause severe long-term losses from glaciers, ice sheets, snow, and permafrost, with major implications for sea-level rise.

Meltwater Flowing Beneath Antarctic Glaciers May Be Accelerating Their Retreat

| UC San Diego Today | October 27, 2023 This article explains research showing that meltwater beneath Antarctic glaciers can speed their retreat. It focuses on Denman and Scott glaciers, which together contain enough ice to raise sea level significantly if destabilized.

Meltdown of West Antarctic Ice Sheet Unavoidable, Study Says

| Reuters | October 23, 2023 This article reports on research finding that major melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet may be unavoidable this century, locking in additional sea-level rise even under strong emissions cuts.

Guest Post: How the Greenland Ice Sheet Fared in 2023

| Carbon Brief | October 17, 2023 This article reviews the Greenland ice sheet’s 2023 melt season and explains how continuing Greenland ice loss contributes to global sea-level rise.

Calculating Glacier Ice Volumes and Sea Level Equivalents

| AntarcticGlaciers.org | June 9, 2023 This explainer describes how scientists estimate how much sea level would rise if glaciers or ice sheets melted. It gives background on sea-level equivalents for mountain glaciers, Greenland, and Antarctica.

Drastic Emissions Cuts Needed to Avert Multi-Century Sea Level Rise, Study Finds

| Axios | February 14, 2023 This article reports on research warning that ice-sheet melt could drive sea-level rise for centuries, especially if global warming is not limited close to 1.5°C.

Half of World’s Glaciers to ‘Disappear’ with 1.5C of Global Warming

| Carbon Brief | January 5, 2023 This article reports on research projecting that roughly half of the world’s glaciers could disappear by 2100 even if warming is limited to 1.5°C, adding significantly to global sea levels.

Guest Post: How Ancient Ice-Age Valleys Could Hold the Key to Global Ice-Sheet Loss

| Carbon Brief | October 5, 2022 This article explains how buried landscapes beneath ice sheets can influence future ice loss, which is central to understanding long-term sea-level rise from Antarctica and Greenland.

Climate Explainer: Nature-Based Solutions

| World Bank | May 19, 2022 This explainer discusses nature-based approaches to climate adaptation, including mangroves and coastal ecosystems that can reduce storm and flood impacts. It is useful for the adaptation side of sea-level-rise coverage.

Regional Trends in Extreme Events in the IPCC 2021 Report

| World Meteorological Organization | March 21, 2022 This WMO article summarizes regional climate trends from the IPCC report, including the finding that global mean sea level will continue rising through 2100 and for centuries afterward. It is useful for placing sea-level rise within the broader IPCC climate-risk framework.

Sea Level to Rise up to a Foot by 2050, Interagency Report Finds

| NASA Sea Level Change Team | February 15, 2022 This article summarizes a U.S. interagency report projecting substantial sea-level rise by 2050, with implications for high-tide flooding, storm surge, and coastal planning.

What You Need to Know About Oceans and Climate Change

| World Bank | February 8, 2022 This explainer summarizes how climate change affects oceans, including warming, sea-level rise, acidification, and changing ocean currents. It is useful for placing sea-level rise within the broader ocean-climate system.

Sea Level Rise

| MIT Climate Portal | May 25, 2021 This MIT explainer describes why sea levels are rising, including the expansion of warming ocean water and the melting of glaciers and ice sheets. It also explains why sea-level rise increases coastal flooding even before land is permanently underwater.

Melting Glaciers Drove ‘21% of Sea Level Rise’ Over Past Two Decades

| Carbon Brief | April 28, 2021 This article reports on research showing that accelerating glacier melt accounted for about one-fifth of global sea-level rise over the previous two decades.

How Is Sea Level Rise Related to Climate Change?

| NOAA Ocean Service | January 4, 2021 This NOAA fact page explains how a warming climate causes seawater to expand and land ice to melt, both of which raise sea level. It also connects sea-level rise to higher coastal flooding risks.

WMO Sea-Level Rise Feature

Global Mean Sea Level

| NASA Sea Level Change Team | Explainer This NASA explainer defines global mean sea level and explains how satellite measurements show the long-term rise in the average height of the ocean. It connects the trend to melting land ice and the thermal expansion of warming seawater.

Overview: Understanding Sea Level

| NASA Sea Level Change Team | Explainer This NASA overview explains why sea level is rising globally, while also noting that regional sea-level change varies by location because of ocean circulation, gravity, land motion, and ice-sheet effects.

Overview: Global Sea Level

| NASA Sea Level Change Team | Explainer This article breaks down the main causes of global sea-level rise, including ice melt, thermal expansion, and changes in land water storage. It is useful as a broad science introduction to the physical drivers of rising seas.

Thermal Expansion

| NASA Sea Level Change Team | Explainer This NASA explainer focuses on thermal expansion, the process by which seawater expands as it warms. It explains why ocean heat uptake is a major contributor to global sea-level rise.

Ice Melt

| NASA Sea Level Change Team | Explainer This NASA explainer describes how melting glaciers and ice sheets add water to the ocean. It also explains how satellites such as GRACE and GRACE Follow-On measure changes in ice mass over time.

Land Water Storage

| NASA Sea Level Change Team | Explainer This article explains how water stored on land — including groundwater, reservoirs, lakes, rivers, and soil moisture — can affect global sea level when water is transferred between land and ocean.

Antarctica

| NASA Sea Level Change Team | Key Indicator This NASA page tracks Antarctic ice-sheet mass loss and explains why Antarctica is one of the largest long-term sources of potential sea-level rise. It is useful for connecting ice-sheet science to coastal flood risk.

Greenland

| NASA Sea Level Change Team | Key Indicator This NASA indicator page explains Greenland’s contribution to sea-level rise and tracks ice mass changes using satellite observations. It helps show how warming air and ocean conditions are affecting the ice sheet.

Are Sea Levels Rising the Same All Over the World, as if We’re Filling a Giant Bathtub?

| NASA Sea Level Change Team | FAQ This NASA FAQ explains why sea-level rise is not uniform around the globe. It describes how ocean dynamics, gravity, Earth rotation, and ice-sheet mass loss create regional sea-level differences.

What Causes Sea-Level Rise?

| NASA Sea Level Change Team | FAQ This NASA FAQ gives a concise explanation of the major causes of sea-level rise: melting land-based ice and the expansion of warming ocean water. It is a useful short explainer for readers new to the topic.

Is the Rate of Sea-Level Rise Increasing?

| NASA Sea Level Change Team | FAQ This NASA FAQ explains evidence that the rate of sea-level rise has increased during the satellite era. It describes how long-term satellite observations are used to track acceleration in global sea level.

How Long Have Sea Levels Been Rising?

| NASA Sea Level Change Team | FAQ This NASA FAQ compares recent sea-level rise with longer historical and geological trends. It explains why the current rate is unusual compared with the relatively stable sea levels of the past several thousand years.

How Much Do Human Activities Contribute to Sea-Level Rise?

| NASA Sea Level Change Team | FAQ This NASA FAQ explains the role of human-caused climate change in observed sea-level rise. It connects greenhouse gas warming to ocean heat uptake, glacier melt, and ice-sheet loss.

How Does El Niño Fit into the Sea-Level Rise Picture?

| NASA Sea Level Change Team | FAQ This explainer describes how El Niño and La Niña can temporarily raise or lower global sea level by shifting rainfall between land and ocean. It helps distinguish short-term variability from the long-term rising trend.

How Does NASA Study Sea-Level Change?

| NASA Sea Level Change Team | FAQ This NASA FAQ explains how satellites, tide gauges, and ocean sensors are used together to measure sea-level change. It is a good background source for understanding the data behind sea-level science.

Overview: Regional Sea Level

| NASA Sea Level Change Team | Explainer This NASA article explains why local and regional sea level can rise faster or slower than the global average. It covers ice-sheet fingerprints, vertical land motion, ocean circulation, and other regional processes.

Subsidence

| NASA Sea Level Change Team | Explainer This article explains how sinking land makes relative sea-level rise worse in many coastal areas. It is useful for connecting global sea-level rise with local flood risk in places affected by groundwater extraction, sediment compaction, or tectonic movement.

Sterodynamic Sea Level

| NASA Sea Level Change Team | Explainer This NASA explainer describes how ocean warming and changing ocean circulation affect regional sea level. It explains why the same amount of global warming can produce different sea-level impacts in different ocean basins.

Climate Change Predictions

| NOAA Office for Coastal Management | Fast Facts This NOAA coastal climate page summarizes projected sea-level rise and other coastal climate impacts. It highlights how sea-level rise over the next several decades could rival the amount observed over the previous century.

Science of Glaciers

| National Snow and Ice Data Center | Explainer This NSIDC explainer describes how glaciers form, move, melt, and respond to climate. It is useful background for understanding why glacier loss contributes to sea-level rise.

Why Frozen Ground Matters

| National Snow and Ice Data Center | Explainer This NSIDC explainer discusses permafrost and includes a section on how thawing frozen ground can contribute to global sea-level rise. It also explains why permafrost thaw has broader climate-system consequences.

The Water Cycle and Climate Change

| UCAR Center for Science Education | Explainer This UCAR explainer describes how climate change alters the water cycle, including how warming oceans and melting ice contribute to sea-level rise. It is useful for connecting sea-level rise to broader hydrological changes.

Why Isn’t Sea Level Rise the Same Everywhere?

| MIT Climate Portal | Ask MIT This MIT explainer describes why local sea-level rise differs from the global average. It explains how gravity, ocean circulation, land motion, and the location of melting ice all influence regional sea level.

14. How Fast Is Sea Level Rising?

| The Royal Society | Climate Change: Evidence & Causes This Royal Society explainer summarizes observed sea-level rise using tide gauges and satellite data. It notes that global average sea level has risen since the early twentieth century and that the rate has increased during the satellite era.

13. How Does Climate Change Affect the Strength and Frequency of Floods, Droughts, Hurricanes, and Tornadoes?

| The Royal Society | Climate Change: Evidence & Causes This Royal Society explainer includes a useful section on how sea-level rise worsens coastal storm surge and flooding. It helps connect rising seas with the damage caused by extreme coastal weather.

FAQ: Climate Change in the Polar Regions

| Scripps Institution of Oceanography | FAQ This Scripps FAQ explains how warming affects polar ice sheets, glaciers, sea ice, and permafrost. It includes background on how Greenland and Antarctica contribute to global sea-level rise.

FAQ: Sea-Level Rise and California

| Scripps Institution of Oceanography | FAQ This FAQ focuses on California but provides clear explanations of general sea-level-rise science, including why local sea level can vary from the global average and how rising seas increase coastal flooding.

If All the Ice in Antarctica Were to Melt, How Much Would Global Sea Level Rise?

| AntarcticGlaciers.org | Explainer This article explains the difference between the theoretical total sea-level equivalent of Antarctic ice and the much slower, partial losses expected over human timescales. It is helpful for avoiding misleading claims about “all the ice melting.”

Marine Ice Sheet Instability

| AntarcticGlaciers.org | Explainer This article explains why ice sheets grounded below sea level, especially parts of West Antarctica, are vulnerable to retreat. It describes marine ice-sheet instability, one of the most important concepts for understanding uncertain future sea-level rise.

Common Misconceptions About Glaciers

| AntarcticGlaciers.org | Explainer This explainer clears up common misunderstandings, including why floating sea ice and ice shelves do not directly raise sea level when they melt, but why ice shelves still matter because they hold back land-based ice.

Reducing Uncertainty in Sea-Level Predictions

| British Antarctic Survey | Research Project This British Antarctic Survey project page explains how scientists are using field observations, satellite data, and computer models to reduce uncertainty in future sea-level predictions from Antarctica, Greenland, and the Southern Ocean.

Visible Impacts

As Hurricane Season Begins, Another Home Collapses Along North Carolina’s Outer Banks

| New York Post | June 3, 2026 This article reports on another beachfront home collapsing into the Atlantic Ocean in Buxton, North Carolina, part of a growing pattern of Outer Banks homes being lost to erosion and rising seas. The article notes that many houses once set back from the water are now exposed to waves, high surf, and repeated coastal erosion.

In New Jersey, Sherrill Agrees to Delay Protections Against Sea Level Rise

| Inside Climate News | June 2, 2026 This article covers New Jersey’s delay of stricter coastal building rules that would have required new shore homes and major remodels to be elevated higher above flood levels. It highlights the tension between development, property interests, and the increasing flood risk from projected sea-level rise.

‘There Is No Great Master Plan’: Anxiety as UK Homes, Roads and Railways Sink into the Sea

| The Guardian | May 23, 2026 This article reports on coastal erosion in the United Kingdom, where homes, roads, railways, and local economies are increasingly threatened by rising seas and stronger storms. It focuses on damaged infrastructure such as the Slapton Line in Devon and communities facing uncertain futures as shorelines retreat.

Sea Level Rise and Sunny-Day Flooding Can’t Stop a New Jersey Building Boom

| Inside Climate News | May 18, 2026 This article looks at continued development along the Jersey Shore despite warnings about sea-level rise and more frequent flooding. It examines how political and business resistance can slow adaptation even as flood risks expand beyond the shoreline.

Dozens of North Carolina Houses Have Been Lost to the Sea. Some Surviving Homes Are Now Being Moved on Wheels

| The Guardian | April 29, 2026 This article documents the accelerating loss of homes along North Carolina’s Outer Banks, where houses are collapsing into the ocean or being moved inland. It shows how sea-level rise, erosion, storms, and barrier-island instability are turning coastal retreat from an abstract policy issue into a visible housing crisis.

What Are the Health Impacts of Sea-Level Rise, and Who Should Pay?

| The Guardian | April 7, 2026 This article focuses on the health effects of sea-level rise, especially in low-lying and island communities. It discusses contaminated drinking water, damaged sanitation systems, waterborne disease, displacement, food insecurity, hypertension linked to saltwater intrusion, and the loss of health infrastructure near coastlines.

Heavy Rain and High Tides Cause Major Flooding in Northern California

| Associated Press | January 3, 2026 This article reports on flooding in Marin County, California, where heavy rain combined with severe king tides flooded roads and trapped people in vehicles. It shows how higher baseline sea levels and extreme tides can turn rainstorms into dangerous coastal flooding events.

Asia-Pacific Faces ‘$500bn-a-Year’ Hit from Rising Seas if Current Policies Continue

| Carbon Brief | December 2, 2025 This article reports on research estimating that coastal flooding damages in Asia and the Pacific could reach hundreds of billions of dollars annually by 2100 if sea levels keep rising under current climate policies.

Thousands of US Hazardous Sites Are at Risk of Flooding Because of Sea Level Rise, Study Finds

| Associated Press | November 20, 2025 This article covers a study finding that thousands of hazardous sites in the United United States could face increasing flood risk as sea levels rise, raising concerns about contamination, public health, and coastal planning.

Sea-Level Rise Accelerates in New Jersey, Raising Coastal Flooding Risks

| Inside Climate News | November 19, 2025 This article reports that sea-level rise in New Jersey is increasing flood risks for homes, roads, utilities, and coastal infrastructure. It highlights Atlantic City’s sharp increase in flood days and projections for far more frequent flooding by mid-century.

When Rivers Swallow Land: Bangladesh’s Endless Battle with Erosion

| Reuters | November 10, 2025 This article reports from Bangladesh, where families are repeatedly forced to move as land is eaten away by water. Although focused on river erosion, it connects to climate-driven displacement in low-lying delta regions already vulnerable to sea-level rise, flooding, and land loss.

Water Rises and Land Sinks in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta

| Le Monde | November 1, 2025 This article reports on the Mekong Delta, where sea-level rise, land subsidence, reduced sediment flows, groundwater extraction, and saltwater intrusion are threatening villages, farms, and one of Vietnam’s most important agricultural regions.

‘We’re Buying Time, but We Won’t Win the Fight’: Senegal’s Saint-Louis Faces the Inexorable Rise of the Sea

| Le Monde | October 30, 2025 This article describes how Saint-Louis, Senegal, is being damaged by rising seas, river flooding, erosion, saltwater intrusion, and land subsidence. It focuses on destroyed homes, threatened historic buildings, relocation of fishing communities, and the loss of coastal livelihoods.

Alaska Airlifting Hundreds from Storm-Devastated Coastal Villages

| Associated Press | October 15, 2025 This article reports on Alaska coastal villages hit by the remnants of Typhoon Halong, where record water levels washed away homes and forced mass evacuations. It highlights the vulnerability of low-lying Indigenous communities facing erosion, storm surge, and inadequate climate-resilience funding.

Coastal Surges Sweep Away Nigeria Coastal Community as Commonwealth Promise Stalls

| Reuters | August 27, 2025 This article reports from Nigerian coastal communities where ocean surges and shoreline erosion have destroyed homes and livelihoods. Residents describe being displaced as the coastline retreats and promised climate-support funding remains slow to arrive.

Rising Sea Levels Could Put Easter Island’s Moai at Risk by 2080

| Associated Press | August 13, 2025 This article reports on research warning that rising seas and stronger waves could threaten Easter Island’s famous moai statues and dozens of nearby cultural sites. It shows sea-level rise as a danger not only to homes and roads, but also to irreplaceable cultural heritage.

What Scrapping a $3 Billion Coastal Project Means for Louisiana’s Future

| The Washington Post | July 25, 2025 This article reports on Louisiana’s cancellation of the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion, a major coastal restoration project intended to rebuild wetlands against sea-level rise and erosion. It focuses on the conflict between coastal protection, fisheries, cost, and the state’s vanishing shoreline.

Rising Seas and Shifting Sands Attack Ancient Alexandria from Below

| Reuters | July 23, 2025 This article reports on Alexandria, Egypt, where rising seas, coastal erosion, saltwater intrusion, and land subsidence are damaging buildings from below. Residents describe cracking and tilting buildings, while officials face growing numbers of unsafe structures along the coast.

How Nantucket Is Preparing for Rising Seas

| Inside Climate News | June 6, 2025 This article describes Nantucket’s efforts to prepare for rising seas and coastal flooding. It notes that the Massachusetts island faces billions of dollars in projected damages if it fails to adapt its historic buildings, roads, harbor areas, and other vulnerable infrastructure.

As Summer Approaches, New Jersey’s Shore Towns Prepare for More Sunny-Day Flooding

| Inside Climate News | June 3, 2025 This article focuses on Atlantic City and other New Jersey shore towns where rising seas are making sunny-day flooding more common. It describes how routine high-tide flooding is becoming an early warning of deeper future disruption.

Many Coastal Communities Are Flooding More Than We Thought, Researchers Find

| The Washington Post | June 2, 2025 This article covers research showing that coastal flooding in North Carolina communities is occurring much more often than tide-gauge data alone suggested. Sensors and cameras found frequent “sunny day” flooding caused by sea-level rise, rainfall, groundwater, and inadequate drainage systems.

Saltwater Intrusion: A Slow-Onset Climate Crisis Jeopardizing America’s Coastal Farms

| Environmental and Energy Study Institute | April 22, 2025 This article explains how rising seas push saltwater into coastal soils and groundwater, damaging farms and threatening crop production. It focuses on saltwater intrusion as a gradual but serious climate impact for coastal agriculture.

New Study Projects Climate-Driven Flooding for Thousands of New Jersey Homes

| Inside Climate News | April 3, 2025 This article reports on projections that tens of thousands of homes and people near the New Jersey Shore could face annual flooding by 2050 because of sea-level rise. It focuses on how routine flooding could affect housing, property values, insurance, and community stability.

Rising Seas and Land-Based Salt Pollution Pose Dual Threats for Drinking Water

| Inside Climate News | March 18, 2025 This article describes how sea-level rise and land-based salt pollution are combining to threaten drinking water, infrastructure, agriculture, and wildlife. It focuses on the growing challenge of managing salinity in water supplies as the climate warms.

Solomon Islands: Rising Seas Force Relocation

| Human Rights Watch | March 17, 2025 This article reports on coastal communities in the Solomon Islands that have been forced to relocate because of rising seas, erosion, and intensifying storms. It emphasizes the human-rights impacts of displacement, insecure land tenure, limited government support, and threats to culture and livelihoods.

5 Feet of Sea-Level Rise Could Reach Santa Cruz County Communities

| Santa Cruz Local | January 31, 2025 This article examines how Santa Cruz County governments are preparing for projected sea-level rise, including threats to beaches, cliffs, roads, homes, and coastal infrastructure. It is especially relevant for showing how sea-level planning affects local California communities.

Sinking Tuvalu Fights to Keep Maritime Boundaries as Sea Levels Rise

| Reuters | September 24, 2024 This investigation focuses on Tuvalu, where sea-level rise threatens land, groundwater, farming, housing, and national sovereignty, while the government seeks to preserve maritime boundaries even if land is submerged.

This Coastal Tribe Has a Radical Vision for Fighting Sea-Level Rise in the Hamptons

| Vox | September 11, 2024 This article reports on the Shinnecock Nation on Long Island, where rising seas and stronger storms threaten tribal land, homes, and cultural continuity. It describes efforts to use wetlands, oyster reefs, and possible managed retreat to protect the community.

The Worldwide Catastrophe of Rising Seas Especially Imperils Pacific Islands

| Associated Press | August 26, 2024 This article covers UN and WMO warnings that sea-level rise is especially dangerous for Pacific island nations, where rising oceans combine with ocean acidification, marine heat waves, and stronger coastal flooding.

Rising Sea Levels Will Disrupt Millions of Americans’ Lives by 2050, Study Finds

| The Guardian | June 25, 2024 This article reports on research finding that millions of Americans could be affected by routine flooding of critical infrastructure by 2050. It highlights risks to schools, hospitals, public housing, utilities, roads, and other community systems, especially in disadvantaged coastal areas.

Panama Community Pushed from Caribbean Island by Rising Sea Levels Moves into New Houses

| Associated Press | June 1, 2024 This article reports on Indigenous Guna families from Gardi Sugdub beginning their move to newly built mainland homes because rising seas and annual flooding have made their island increasingly unsafe. It shows one of the clearest modern examples of organized relocation tied to sea-level rise.

Panama Prepares to Evacuate First Island in Face of Rising Sea Levels

| Associated Press | May 29, 2024 This article describes Panama’s plan to relocate residents of Gardi Sugdub, one of many low-lying coastal communities expected to face increasing impacts from rising seas. It focuses on the emotional and cultural cost of leaving an island community after generations by the sea.

The Silent Killer: Saltwater Threatens Women’s Health in Coastal Bangladesh

| Global Health NOW | May 29, 2024 This article reports on saltwater intrusion in coastal Bangladesh and its effects on women’s health. It describes how climate-driven salinity in drinking water and soil contributes to health problems, water insecurity, and added burdens for families in coastal communities.

As Sea Levels Rise, the Quinault Nation Moves to Higher Ground

| Grist / ICT | May 6, 2024 This article reports on the Quinault Indian Nation’s plan to move part of the village of Taholah, Washington, to higher ground. The existing village faces flooding from storm surge, river flooding, and sea-level rise, with saltwater reaching yards and homes.

Relocation of Eroding Alaska Native Village Seen as a Test Case

| Alaska Public Media | April 22, 2024 This article reports on the relocation of Newtok, Alaska, to Mertarvik after erosion and climate impacts made the original village increasingly unsafe. It shows the practical difficulty of moving an entire community, including housing, infrastructure, funding, and governance challenges.

Rising Seas Stretch Risk Zones

| Climate Central | April 4, 2024 This science-based report explains how sea-level rise pushes annual flood-risk zones farther inland and higher above the current tideline. It emphasizes that risk expands before places are permanently underwater.

How Rising Sea Levels Are Threatening the Food Security and Health of Coastal Communities

| Climate and Health Alliance | December 9, 2023 This article examines how rising seas threaten coastal food systems, drinking water, health, and livelihoods. It is especially useful for connecting sea-level rise to nutrition, sanitation, disease risk, and community displacement.

Rising Seas, Flooding Coasts

| Climate Central | September 27, 2023 This article describes how sea-level rise is increasing coastal flood risk in the United United States. It focuses on high-tide flooding, storm surge, infrastructure exposure, and the way rising baseline sea levels make smaller storms more damaging.

Moving Communities to Safety

| Stanford Report | July 27, 2023 This article discusses planned relocation as a response to sea-level rise and repeated flooding. It summarizes research on how communities can be moved away from flood risks with less social harm, emphasizing that relocation is often a last-resort adaptation.

Fiji Moving Villages Inundated by Rising Seas Wants Big Emitters to Pay

| Reuters | August 4, 2022 This article reports on Fiji villages that have moved or are preparing to move as rising seas flood homes, gardens, and village land. It highlights the demand that high-emitting countries help pay for relocation and adaptation in vulnerable Pacific island communities.

Rising Sea Levels Are Forcing Fiji’s Villagers to Relocate

| Reuters | August 1, 2022 This visual Reuters report focuses on Serua Island in Fiji, where seawater floods into homes and gardens at high tide. Residents face the painful choice of abandoning ancestral land as adaptation options run out.

How Will Coastal Residents First Experience the Effects of Sea Level Rise?

| MIT Climate Portal | April 22, 2022 This article explains that many people will first experience sea-level rise through more frequent flooding, higher storm surge, saltwater intrusion, and worsening drainage problems rather than permanent submergence.

Global Flood Losses Hit $82 Billion Last Year, as Study Highlights UK Risk

| Reuters | March 30, 2022 This article reports on the rising economic cost of flooding, including coastal and climate-related flood risk. It provides context for the broader financial consequences of sea-level rise, storm surge, and more damaging flood events.

Climate Migration Fuels Conflicts in Bay of Bengal Region

| Reuters | February 15, 2022 This article reports on how climate-linked land loss, migration, and displacement along the Bay of Bengal could intensify social and political conflict. It connects rising seas and coastal erosion with instability in a densely populated region already facing flood and cyclone risks.

Mapped: African World Heritage Sites Threatened by Sea Level Rise ‘to Triple by 2050’

by 2050/ | Carbon Brief | February 10, 2022 This article maps African cultural and natural heritage sites that could face increasing coastal flood and erosion risks as sea levels rise by mid-century.

Amid Rising Seas, ‘Dry’ Resort Is Wetter Than It Likes

| Associated Press | February 16, 2021 This article reports on Ocean City, New Jersey, where frequent flooding has forced costly drainage and flood-control projects. It shows how sea-level rise creates recurring daily-life disruptions and major public costs even in a wealthy beach-resort community.