Since 1993, average global sea levels have risen roughly four inches due to global climate change, according to NASA. However, a meme that suggests polar ice melt from climate change cannot cause ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — It is a measurement at the center of concern and anxiety over climate change, a slow-moving threat marking the insidious danger posed by the ocean, which surrounds Staten Island ...

Climate change is an imminent threat to humanity’s future, but the global climate is so complex that it’s often hard to even see the scale of the problem. One of the best ways we have to measure ...

For the first time, NASA has the tools and expertise to understand the rate at which sea level is changing, some of the mechanisms that drive those changes and the effects that sea level change may ...

A satellite scheduled to launch from California later this month will measure sea level rise and provide other crucial data to scientists who study how global warming is affecting the Earth's oceans.

SpaceX launched a joint NASA-European environmental research satellite early Monday, the second in an ongoing billion-dollar project to measure long-term changes in sea level, a key indicator of ...

While satellites have revolutionized our ability to measure sea level with remarkable precision, their data becomes less reliable near coasts—where accurate information is most urgently needed.