Global coastal sea levels are on average 1 foot higher than previously assumed, a new report finds, raising alarms the world ...

A new study in the journal Nature says most sea level rise research may have underestimated coastal water heights by an ...

I didn’t expect the discrepancy to be so immense,” said Katharina Seeger, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of ...

A new study found that many of our predictions on sea-level rise have been predicated on inaccurate starting numbers. In many places, especially Southeast Asia and the Pacific, it's significantly ...

Researchers found that a majority of studies on coastal sea levels underestimated how high water levels are, and hundreds of millions of people are closer to peril than previously thought.

Measurements of coastal sea-level height around the world may be higher than scientists previously thought, according to new ...

Sea levels across the world are already “much higher” than most scientific assessments have assumed, according to new research, making coasts even more vulnerable to rising oceans as a result of ...

Most coastal risk assessments have underestimated current sea levels, meaning tens of millions of people face losing their homes to rising waters earlier than expected ...

An analysis of coastal impact assessments revealed that the majority are not based on direct sea-level and land-elevation ...

A study published in Nature on March 4, 2026, found that more than 99% of coastal hazard assessments conducted over the past 16 years used flawed sea-level data, meaning actual ocean levels are ...

Sea level can temporarily change for a variety of reasons—atmospheric pressure shifts and water accumulation from wind and ...

King tide events usually occur May through July, according to UH Hawaiʻi and the Pacific Islands King Tides Project, which has been active since 2015. The project uses submitted photos to track ...