WASHINGTON DC - A new NASA study indicates that the sea level along U.S. coastlines could rise more than a foot by the year 2050, at the high end of previous estimates, a development with potentially serious consequences. NASA's Sea Level Change Team analyzed nearly three decades of satellite observations before reaching this conclusion. While
PRINCETON N.J. - By 2100 more than 1 million properties in 24 states and Washington DC worth more than $100 billion are projected to be at least partly submerged at high tide. By 2050, as many as 4.4 million acres are projected to fall below the high tide line nationwide. Four states—Louisiana, Florida, North Carolina, and Texas—account
BOSTON - The melting of polar ice is not only shifting the levels of our oceans, it is changing the planet Earth itself. Newly minted Ph.D. Sophie Coulson and her colleagues explained in a recent paper in Geophysical Research Letters that, as glacial ice from Greenland, Antarctica, and the Arctic Islands melts, Earth’s crust beneath these
