Sea Level Rise
An Earth Observatory Collection
Global mean sea level has risen 101 millimeters (3.98 inches) since 1992, and it continues to do so at 3.9…
Where the Netherlands meets the North Sea, there is an impressive confluence of natural and man-made features.
The globe is warming, ice is melting, but that doesn't mean that an ocean will be returning to Vermont anytime…
While scientists have grown more confident about projections of sea level rise for the next few decades, many competing factors…
Datasets from the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite will build upon three decades of sea level measurements.
The unexpected discovery of a whale skeleton hundreds of miles from the sea and more than 200 feet above sea…
Sinking land, rising seas, and rainfall-driven floods pose big problems for Indonesia’s largest city.
A city full of cultural, historical, and architectural riches has gone to great lengths to protect itself from floods.
A new artificial island near Malé could be a destination for people trying to escape rising waters on lower-lying islands.
Sea level rise and new development are on a collision course in South Carolina lowcountry.
While there are efforts to reinforce its beaches and marshes, some of Barataria Bay is slowly slipping away.
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich will extend a nearly 30-year continuous dataset on sea surface height.
Scientists measure ice’s gravitational pull on a pair of satellites, allowing them to estimate ice loss and its contribution to…
Earth’s surface may seem motionless most of the time, but an array of measurements show that natural and human-caused processes…
Scientists project ice losses from the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets will play a large part in sea level rise…
This island’s rugged topography and dense rainforest has led most of its inhabitants to live along the coastline.
The ocean is lumpy and sloshes around its basins for natural reasons. But it is also rising, slowly and steadily.
Millions of people in the state live in low-lying coastal areas where land subsidence is exacerbating the risks of sea…
Rising waters are swallowing up another island in Chesapeake Bay.
It snowed more, but the mass gained only compensates for some of the ice being lost in Antarctica.
Satellites detect changes in the height and velocity of ice in an area that was thought to be relatively stable…
