Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use ...

Researchers have modeled sea level changes on thousand-year timescales for the past 540 million years. These insights offer ...

This village fought sea-level rise 7,000 years ago. ... Seven thousand years ago, long before modern industry began to heat the planet, rising seas threatened a community on the coast of Israel.

More than 600 million people (around 10 percent of the world's population) live in coastal areas that are less than 10 meters (32 feet) above sea level.

Melting ice raised sea levels just under half an inch a year, they calculated. This global thaw may have sped up the tectonic plate on which much of North America sits by up to 25 percent between ...

Climate researchers thought that current global average sea levels were the highest in more than 100,000 years, but new models suggest oceans just 6000 years ago may have been higher than at the ...

This means past rates of sea level rise provide only low-end predictions of what might happen in the future. We examined data from the last interglacial, which occurred 125,000 to 118,000 years ago.

Between 15 million and 6 million years ago, deepening of Earth’s ocean basins may have caused a sea level change of similar magnitude, but in the opposite direction. (Image credit: NASA) ...

A group of scientists studying evidence preserved in cave formations have found that sea level was as much as 52 feet higher than the present day more than 3 million years ago.