Sea levels along the United States coast are rising faster than they did in the past, and the change is not subtle.

Sentinel-6B satellite measurements show sea level changes across the North Atlantic, adding to decades of data used to track ...

A July 2025 report from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) claims that U.S. tide gauge measurements "in aggregate show no obvious acceleration in sea level rise beyond the historical average rate." ...

Recent research highlights a disturbing reality: Boston is sinking. At the same time, our city is contending with rising sea levels. The land beneath us is gradually moving in the opposite direction.

It’s not politics. That’s what the data say,” said the study’s author, who examined 70 tide gauges around the country.

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 ...