Some big changes arrive with a bang, but usually they sort of sneak in and you barely notice them at first. Last week’s big change saw the creation of the world’s first climate-change visas. It’s a ...

Explore the platform The extent of coastal flooding has increased over the past 20 years as a result of sea level rise, meaning 14 million more people worldwide now live in coastal communities with a ...

In late June, all 10,000 residents of the South Pacific island state of Tuvalu were invited to enter a lottery whose 280 ...

Changes in cloud cover. Rising sea levels. Shrinking snowpack. Shifts in hurricane strength and timing. Each measured and modeled independently but all pointing in the same direction. That convergence ...

Nearly half the citizens of the tiny Pacific Island nation have already applied in a lottery for Australian visas amid an ...

Some 2,600 miles west of Hawaii and more than 3,000 miles from mainland Australia, the island nation of Tuvalu faces an ...

Rising sea levels, driven by climate change, pose a severe threat to low-lying nations, including island countries and ...

"Massive sea level rises have been sold to us, and taught to our children," says a June 8, 2025 post shared thousands of times on Facebook. The post juxtaposes two photos of Fort Denison in Sydney, ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has been monitoring the relative sea level -- the height of the water relative to the land -- at Fort Denison since 1886 (archived here).

When ice gets trapped on land as giant ice sheets, it causes the sea level to change, but it doesn’t change by the same amount all around the planet. Like the moon, the gravity of the ice sheets ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's coast guard on Friday held a joint exercise with counterparts from the United States and the Philippines, as the three Pacific nations beef up defense cooperation in the ...

Japan’s coast guard has held a joint exercise with counterparts from the United States and the Philippines, as the three Pacific nations beef up defense cooperation in the face of China’s ...