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

Note: This transcript was computer generated and edited by a volunteer. Dave Miller: We turn now to another recent map put out by NOAA, another way to see how climate change is affecting our lives.

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 ...

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Rising sea levels, largely caused by climate change, could disrupt the lives of millions of Americans in the coming decades. The U.S.'s extensive coastline, which is densely populated, will be ...

The world’s ice sheets are on course for runaway melting, leading to multiple feet of sea level rise and “catastrophic” migration away from coastlines, even if the world pulls off the miraculous and ...

A map shows the growing threat to coastal cities across the United States due to rising sea levels. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s latest projections, sea ...

In the mid-fifteen-hundreds, a Swedish peasant named Nils lived on an island called Iggön in the Baltic Sea. He was known to his neighbors as Rich Nils, apparently because of the plenitude of fish in ...

People from all walks of life flock to coasts and seashores to play, work or simply enjoy the beauty of the ocean. But as the climate changes, coastlines are coming to represent something else – ...

Sea-level rise changes coastlines, putting homes at risk, as Summer Haven, Fla., has seen. Aerial Views/E+/Getty Images Shaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of ...

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, ...