Thousands of people in a major Bay Area city already face periodic flooding. It's projected to get much worse.

A new levee coming to Palo Alto will protect from rising seas, restore the bay shoreline and improve water quality.

Travel & Leisure magazine ranks Sausalito as California's most beautiful coastal town and the 16th most beautiful coastal town in the world. Being located between the mountains and the San Francisco ...

The topic of sea level rise and potential solutions took center stage in San Francisco Monday, much to the relief of many homeowners near the water. The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development ...

Bay Area scientists, researchers, community advocates and local leaders will converge on the Exploratorium for a conference focusing on ways in which the region is addressing rising sea levels and ...

The San Francisco waterfront exemplifies how much would be threatened by sea-level rise as it spreads into the bay. (Photo by Brandon Beach/U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) Coastal communities around the ...

How high will the ocean rise under climate change? By 2050, scientists have a pretty good idea. But why does it matter where you live? And what can humans do to slow it down? NPR climate correspondent ...

Shaina Sadai has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the Hitz Family Foundation. Ambarish Karmalkar receives funding from National Science Foundation. When polar ice sheets melt, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In May 2014, NASA announced at a press conference that a portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appeared to have reached a point of ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from the poles. But ...