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Sinking cities can be a more immediate problem than rising seas, but get far less attention.
Big coastal cities sink faster than seas rise
Seesawing sea levels in the Pacific correlate with the rate of global surface warming, new research reveals.
Pacific sea level predicts global temperature change
Greenland's jagged coastline holds the key to its future, determining how quickly ice will melt as fjords are infiltrated by warmer water.
Greenland on the edge
The 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo distorted calculations of the rate of sea-level rise when satellite observations began, a new study shows.
Volcano masks quickening pace of sea level rise
IMBIE is an international collaboration of polar scientists, providing improved estimates of the ice sheet contribution to sea level rise. Data submission page for the 2016 assessment now open.
Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise
New study offers the first glimpse of changes hidden deep beneath the surface.
NASA maps thawing base of Greenland Ice Sheet