Robert A. Dalrymple, chair, is the Willard and Lillian Hackerman Professor of Civil Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. His research interests are in coastal engineering, water wave mechanics, ...

Sinking coastal cities are exposing millions of residents to greater flood risks as land subsidence accelerates sea-level ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A slow-moving crisis of sinking land and rising water is playing out along America's coastline. In the past 100 years, sea levels ...

Sea-level rise in the U.S. won’t only affect people living on the coasts—as homes flood in Florida and New Jersey, it may trigger mass migration inland, potentially making housing more expensive and ...

The report found sea-level rise accelerated at higher rates in 2019 than in 2018. The acceleration of sea-level rise was highest along the East and Gulf Coast. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Humans have been adapting to changes in the environment for thousands of years. Probably since the beginning of time, we have roamed the Earth looking for the best place to settle based on our needs ...

In the next few decades rising sea will lead to increased storm and tidal flooding for millions of Americans in coastal communities. Norfolk, Virginia, is pictured here with an inundated roadway.

Sea-level rise is governed by processes that alter the volume of water in the global ocean—primarily thermal expansion of sea water and transfers of water from terrestrial reservoirs, such as land ice ...