Rising sea levels

A surfer walks in front of the Ocean Beach pier as the sun sets, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, in San Diego. Rising seas, frequent storms take toll on California's iconic piers, threatening beach landmarks. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

‘Pineapple Expresses’ and rising seas are battering California’s piers, threatening iconic landmarks

Rising seas and frequent storms are taking their toll on California’s iconic public piers and raising questions about the future of the landmarks.
 
FILE - Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, holds a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, on June 6, 2022. Egypt’s foreign minister has urged world leaders and negotiators to deliver on previously made pledges to battle climate change ahead of this month’s U.N. summit. Sameh Shoukry is president of the COP27 climate change conference to be held in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh on Nov. 6-18. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Egypt calls for pledge fulfillments at climate conference

 
Farmland inundated with saltwater, gradually eats away the soil in the Mediterranean town of Mutubes, in Kafr el-Sheikh province, Egypt, Friday, Sept. 9, 2022. The impact of climate change has long been obvious to farmers, in the creeping salt that eats away roots and cakes their fields, turning them barren. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Climate change and rising seas threaten Egypt’s breadbasket

 
Rancher Jean-Claude Groul, left, fetches his horse at dawn to start the day’s work and a marshland, right, used for grazing semi-wild bulls and horses in the Camargue, southern France, Oct. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

In southern France, drought, rising seas threaten traditions

 
Hay farmer Milan Adams stands in a dry hay field near a wind sock, left, in Exeter, R.I., Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Adams said in prior years it rained in the spring. This year, he said, the dryness started in March, and April was so dry he was nervous about his first cut of hay. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Northeastern farmers face new challenges with severe drought

 

Chilling reality of Antarctica’s ice melt

Antarctica’s ice shelves have shrunk by over 40% since 1997 according to a comprehensive new study of the region and researchers say global warming is a likely cause. (October 12).

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People walk in front of the high surf near Kapahulu Groin (Waikiki Wall) in Waikiki, Hawaii, Sunday, July 17, 2022. (Craig T. Kojima/Honolulu Star-Advertiser via AP)

Hawaii waves swamp homes, weddings during ‘historic’ swell

Towering waves on Hawaii’s south shores crashed into homes and businesses, spilled across highways and toppled tables at a wedding reception over the weekend.
 
FILE - Alwande Ndlovu, stands where a neighbor's house once stood, after heavy rains caused flood damage in Umgababa, near Durban, South Africa, April 19, 2022. Commonwealth leaders are set to adopt the much-awaited “Living Lands Charter”, an action plan to address climate change, land degradation and biodiversity loss. Recent weather events and longer term climate trends, including heatwaves, extreme temperatures, drought, cyclones, floods and sea-level rise, afflict most of its member states. (AP Photo, File)

Commonwealth heads call for climate action at Rwanda meeting

Leaders of Commonwealth nations are calling for increased climate action at a meeting in Rwanda this week, ahead of the United Nations climate change summit in the seaside resort of Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt later this year.
 
This Oct. 11, 2019 photo shows a car kicking up spray while driving through a flooded street in Bay Head, N.J. New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have proposed a massive $16 billion plan to address back bay flooding along the shore. But Bay Head, a wealthy, Republican-led enclave whose location at the northernmost tip of Barnegat Bay gave the town its name, feels it needs to act sooner than 2030, the earliest the ambitious project could begin construction. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

Damp Jersey Shore town ponders a fix for ‘sunny day’ floods

An elite but often-underwater beach town at the Jersey Shore is looking for its own solutions to back bay flooding, deciding it can’t wait for state and federal officials to agree on a fix.
 
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan gestures leads a delegation of mayors, including Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, second left, from the cities of Athens, Stockholm, North Dhaka, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Seattle, Paris, Freetown, Oslo, Rio de Janeiro and Barcelona onto a train taking them to the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow from Euston Station in London, Monday, Nov. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/David Cliff)

“Major cities really matter": Mayors demand climate action

The mayors of Seattle and Freetown in Sierra Leone greeted each other like long lost sisters on a train hurtling toward the U.N. climate conference in Glasgow.
 
FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020 file photo, people wade their way through water in flooded St. Mark's Square following a high tide, in Venice, Italy. Lashing winds that pushed 1.87 meters (nearly 6 feet 2 inches) of water into Venice in November 2019 and ripped the lead tiles off St. Mark’s Basilica for the first time ever shocked Venetians with the city’s second-worst flood in history, but it was the additional four exceptional floods over the next six weeks that triggered fears about the impact of worsening climate change. (Anteo Marinoni/LaPresse via AP, file)

Flooding in Venice worsens off-season amid climate change

Venice saw a record five exceptional floods over six weeks in late 2019 that triggered fears about the impact of worsening climate change on the Italian lagoon city beloved by tourists.
 

Climate change: England must ‘adapt or die,’ agency warns

A government agency says England will be hit hard by floods like those that devastated Germany this summer if the country does not improve its defenses against more extreme weather brought by climate change.
 
FILE - In this file photo taken Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020, a Samburu boy uses a wooden stick to try to swat a swarm of desert locusts filling the air, as he herds his camel near the village of Sissia, in Samburu county, Kenya. Climate change could push more than 200 million people to move within their own countries in the next three decades and create migration hotspots unless urgent action is taken in the coming years to reduce global emissions and bridge the development gap, a World Bank report has found. The report published on Monday, Sept. 13, 2021 examines how long-term impacts of climate change such as water scarcity, decreasing crop productivity and rising sea levels could lead to millions of what the report describes as “climate migrants” by 2050. (AP Photo/Patrick Ngugi, File)

Report: Climate change could see 200 million move by 2050

Climate change could push more than 200 million people to move within their own countries in the next three decades and create migration hot spots unless urgent action is taken in the coming years to reduce global emissions and bridge the development gap.
 
View from the 7th Continent expedition sailing ship as French President Emmanuel Macron with a delegation go admire the Calanques National Park, a marine reserve known for its azure blue waters overhung by high white cliffs, near Marseille, southern France, Friday Sept. 3, 2021. Macron is expected to urge the world to better protect biodiversity as key to fight climate change and support human welfare at a global summit starting Friday in southern France. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole, pool)

Report: More sharks, rays threatened with extinction

Sharks and rays have seen declines in their populations since 2014 and more and more are now threatened with extinction.
 

Portsmouth exhibit highlights impact of rising sea levels

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire history museum usually focused on the past is now highlighting the present and looking to the future.
 
FILE - This Aug. 31, 1954 file photo shows boats driven up onto docks and buildings, and knocked into the water in the Menemsha section of Martha's Vineyard as a howling Hurricane Carol accompanied by fiercely driving rain struck New England causing millions of dollars of damage. An environmental report being released Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021 paints a dire picture for the famous islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket in Massachusetts in the face of rising sea levels and more powerful coastal storms caused by climate change. (AP Photo/DCG, File)

Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket face dire climate change impact

BOSTON (AP) — The famous islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket in Massachusetts are facing serious impacts from rising sea levels and more powerful coastal storms driven by climate change, a new environmental report released Wednesday warns.
 

Danish lawmakers give go-ahead to built Copenhagen island

Danish lawmakers have voted in favor of building a 20-billion-kroner ($3.3 billion) artificial island in Copenhagen that will house at least 35,000 people who will be connected to downtown by a harbor tunnel and a subway line.
 
FILE - This March 30, 2004, file photo, shows Tarawa atoll, Kiribati. Ioane Teitiota and his wife fought for years to be allowed to stay in New Zealand as refugees, arguing that rising sea levels caused by global warming threaten the very existence of their tiny Pacific nation of Kiribati, one of the lowest lying countries on Earth. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

Climate change creates migrants. Biden considers protections

No nation offers asylum or other protections to people displaced because of climate change. President Joe Biden’s administration is studying the idea, and climate migration is expected to be discussed at his first climate summit this week.
 
John Kerry, the special U.S. envoy on climate, speaks with Bangladeshi Foreign Minister A.K. Abdul Momen standing beside him in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, April 9, 2021. Kerry said Friday that President Joe Biden was keen to work with Bangladesh in dealing with climate change impacts after the United States' return to the Paris accord. (AP Photo/Al-emrun Garjon)

US envoy Kerry discusses climate challenges in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — John Kerry, the special U.S. envoy on climate, said Friday that President Joe Biden is eager to work with Bangladesh in dealing with the impact of climate change after the United States’ return to the Paris accord.
 
This Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021 photo shows Ocean City, N.J. The city is dealing with the costs of rising sea levels, both in monetary terms and the disruption that recurring flooding brings. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

Amid rising seas, ‘dry’ resort is wetter than it likes

OCEAN CITY, N.J. (AP) — Ocean City, New Jersey is officially a “dry” town.

In 1879, four Methodist ministers established a Christian seaside resort here with a permanent ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol — a prohibition that remains to this day.
 
In this June 2017 photo taken in the ACE Basin region of South Carolina and provided by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, a male black rail offers an insect to a female as part of their courtship behaviors. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared the Eastern black rail a threatened species on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, but stopped short of the stronger protections some environmentalists were seeking for the elusive bird now imperiled by habitat destruction, sea level rise, and the increasing frequency and intensity of storms with climate change. (Christy Hand/South Carolina Department of Natural Resources via AP)

Elusive eastern black rail threatened by rising sea levels

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared the Eastern black rail a threatened species on Wednesday, but stopped short of the stronger protections some environmentalists were seeking for the elusive bird, now imperiled by habitat destruction, sea level rise, and the increasing frequency and intensi
 
This Dec. 12, 2019 photo released by CINDAQ.ORG, or "Centro Investigador del Sistema Acuífero de Quintana Roo," shows a diver in the "La Mina Roja" passage of the Sagitario underwater cave system near Playa del Carmen in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. The discovery of remains of human-set fires, stacked mining debris, simple stone tools, navigational aids, and digging sites suggest humans went into the caves around 12,000 to 14,000 years ago, seeking iron-rich red ocher, which early peoples in the Americas prized for decoration and rituals. (CINDAQ.ORG via AP)

Experts find early ocher mine in Mexican underwater caves

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Experts and cave divers in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula have found ocher mines that are some of the oldest on the continent, which could explain why ancient skeletons were found in the narrow, twisting labyrinths of now-submerged sinkhole caves.
 

New Florida laws address sea level, algae, pythons, iguanas

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Florida Ron DeSantis signed a slew of environmental bills in less than 24 hours that address issues ranging from sea level rise to blue-green algae blooms — and even given the state authority to use drones to fight invasive Burmese pythons.
 
In this Jan. 11, 2020 photo an extreme high tide rolls in and floods parts of the harbor in Depoe Bay, Ore. during a so-called "king tide" that coincided with a big winter storm. Amateur scientists are whipping out their smartphones to document the effects of extreme high tides on shore lines from the United States to New Zealand, and by doing so are helping better predict what rising sea levels due to climate change will mean for coastal communities around the world. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)

Photos of ‘king tides’ globally show risks of climate change

DEPOE BAY, Ore. (AP) — Tourists, nature lovers and amateur scientists are whipping out their cameras to document the effects of extreme high tides on shorelines from the United States to New Zealand, and by doing so are helping better predict what rising sea levels will mean for coastal communities
 
Artwork by Zanele Muholi is displayed at the Stevenson Gallery during Art Basel Miami Beach, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, in Miami Beach, Fla. The annual exhibition features artwork from over 200 of the world's modern and contemporary art galleries. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Miami Beach unveils traffic sculpture made of sand

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — It took artist Leandro Erlich two years and 330 tons (299 metric tons) of sand to create his largest work of art to date — a giant traffic jam, made entirely of sand.
 
Partially submerged ferry boats in Venice, Italy, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019. The mayor of Venice is blaming climate change for flooding in the historic canal city that has reached the second-highest levels ever recorded, as another exceptional water level was recorded Wednesday. (AP Photo/Luigi Costantini)

Venice ‘on its knees’ after second-worst flood ever recorded

VENICE, Italy (AP) — The worst flooding in Venice in more than 50 years prompted calls Wednesday to better protect the historic city from rising sea levels as officials calculated hundreds of millions of euros in damage.
 
Artist Thomas Starr holds sign printouts, part of a public design installation, on the banks of the Oyster River in Durham, N.H., Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019. Starr, a graphic and information design professor from Boston's Northeastern University, created the project to address possible effects of climate change. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Artist uses ‘historic’ markers to raise climate awareness

DURHAM, N.H. (AP) — New England is awash in historic markers, but a handful of plaques popping up in a New Hampshire town are different.
 
This Sept. 23, 2019 photo provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, shows MacArthur Foundation fellow Danielle Citron, a legal scholar at Boston College in Boston. For the past 15 years Citron, has focused her attention on cyber harassment and the toll it takes on its victims. The MacArthur Foundation on Wednesday, Sept. 25 named 26 people it believes have shown exceptional creativity and accomplishment and will continue to do so. The fellows will receive $625,000 over five years to use as they please. (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation via AP)

MacArthur Foundation announces $625K genius grant recipients

CHICAGO (AP) — Female academics whose expertise and influence in areas as diverse as the impact of slavery on modern America, legislating against cyber harassment, and global warming and its effect on rising sea levels were named Wednesday as three of this year’s 26 MacArthur fellows and recipients
 
This photo taken in Jan. 2019 and made available by Deltares shows the flume wave tank in Delft, Netherlands, that is used to test structure designs for the strengthening work for the Afsluitdijk. With climate change bringing bigger storms and rising sea levels, one of the low-lying Netherlands’ key defenses against the sea is getting a major makeover. The 5-year project will see workers lay thousands of concrete blocks and raise parts of the 87-year-old Afsluititdijk dike. (Guus Schoonewille/Deltares via AP)

Dutch reinforce major dike as seas rise, climate changes

THE AFSLUITDIJK, Netherlands (AP) — Rising up in a thin line through the waters separating the provinces of North Holland and Friesland, the 87-year-old Afsluitdijk is one of the low-lying Netherlands’ key defenses against its ancient enemy, the sea.
 
FILE - In this Oct. 25, 2015 file photo, a motorcyclist rides through floodwater in the coastal city of Alexandria, Egypt. Alexandria, which has survived invasions, fires and earthquakes since it was founded by Alexander the Great more than 2,000 years ago, now faces a new menace from climate change. Rising sea levels threaten to inundate poorer neighborhoods and archaeological sites, prompting authorities to erect concrete barriers out at sea to hold back the surging waves. (AP Photo/Heba Khamis, File)

Rising seas threaten Egypt’s fabled port city of Alexandria

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (AP) — Egypt’s coastal city of Alexandria, which has survived invasions, fires and earthquakes since it was founded by Alexander the Great more than 2,000 years ago, now faces a new menace in the form of climate change.
 
FILE - In this Oct. 9, 2018, file photo, a cyclist rides past an area flooded during a King Tide, an especially high tide, in Miami. Federal scientists, according to a report released Wednesday, July 10, 2019, predict 40 places in the U.S. will experience higher than normal rates of so-called sunny day flooding this year due to rising sea levels and an abnormal El Nino weather system. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, FIle)

‘A floodier future': Scientists say records will be broken

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The federal government is warning Americans to brace for a “floodier” future.
 

Study: Rising sea levels could cost Seattle $23B by 2040

SEATTLE (AP) — A climate study has estimated that Seattle’s costs associated with sea level rise could be more than $23.8 billion by 2040.
 
FILE- In this Sept. 30, 2015 file photo, a woman gets a ride on a police truck navigating a flooded street in Miami Beach, Fla. The street flooding was in part caused by high tides due to the lunar cycle, according to the National Weather Service. When Democratic presidential candidates meet in Miami for their first debate it'll be in what you could call the country's Ground Zero for any climate-related sea level rise. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Calls increase for Democrats to face climate change in Miami

MIAMI (AP) — Rising sea levels could threaten the very existence of Miami and much of the rest of South Florida, and Democrats are facing calls to confront climate change squarely during this week’s presidential debates in the low-lying city.
 

Is sea rise wrecking coastal home values? The answer: Maybe

SALISBURY, Mass. (AP) — For sale: waterfront property with sweeping views of the Atlantic Ocean. Waves erode beach regularly. Flooding gets worse every year.
 
In this photo provided by United Nations Children's Agency (UNICEF), damaged buildings are seen after Cyclone Kenneth made landfall in Pemba, Mozambique, Friday, April 27, 2019. The second powerful cyclone to strike Mozambique in just six weeks ripped off roofs and killed at least three people on Friday as the United Nations warned of "massive flooding" ahead. (Neidi de Car valho/UNICEF via AP)

Ocean changes affected deadly duo of Mozambique cyclones

BERLIN (AP) — Warming waters and rising sea levels are affecting Indian Ocean cyclones such as those that have wrought havoc in Mozambique in recent weeks, making them potentially more deadly.
 

Waikiki flood concerns spur push for Hawaii shore protection

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s iconic Waikiki Beach could soon be underwater as rising sea levels caused by climate change overtake its white sand beaches and bustling city streets.
 
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