Articles for tag: ClimateChange, ClimateScience, FloodingRisk, SeaLevelRise

A view of the ocean from a boat

How Soon Will the Seas Rise?

Suhail Ahmed

  The ocean is already on the move, and it is rising far faster than coastal maps, mortgage contracts, and seaside dreams were built to handle. For most of the twentieth century, sea level crept upward almost politely; now it is accelerating in ways that rattle even veteran climate scientists. What once sounded like a ...