Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use sediments and fossils to roughly reconstruct how sea levels changed over ...

Melting of the Antarctic ice sheet due to global warming has long-term, irreversible societal impacts with important ...

Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula lost nearly half its size astonishingly rapidly. Scientists have now discovered ...

About 1,000 years ago, a Viking woman named Ingrid built a wharf to load ships at a bay on the Swedish coast and commemorated ...

Sea levels rose and fell many times during the ice age, showing ice sheets were larger and more active much earlier than once believed.

Ecuador's Mount Chimborazo is scientifically closer to space than Mount Everest, not due to sea-level height, but Earth's ...

Flooding during a Cascadia region earthquake would alter the topography and ecosystems of the coastal region for years to centuries.