Many coastal maps start from the wrong sea-level baseline, and correcting the error could mean millions more are vulnerable ...

Humans are a coastal species. More than one in ten people in the world live within three miles of the shore, and about 40 ...

The more you travel, the more you realize how much there is to see. There’s a list on Wikipedia that features the most ...

If you are not paying attention to the dramatic developments between China and the United States, you must understand that something consequential has just taken place. The US government is ...

If you are not paying attention to the dramatic developments between China and the United States, you must understand that something consequential has just taken place.

One of the basic reference points in coastal science has been less reliable than many researchers assumed. A growing body of work now shows that sea-level estimates can drift off course when ...

Scientists studying coastal flood risk have been working with sea-level estimates that are systematically too low, according to a study published in Nature on March 4, 2026. Researchers Christian ...

Many of the world’s coastal risk maps begin with a simple assumption: the ocean starts at zero. But new research suggests that this baseline may already be wrong. Scientists analyzing hundreds of ...

Because the truth is far less polite: when war breaks out in the Middle East, your finances are about to get dragged into it whether you like it or not. You might live thousands of miles away. You ...

The “gravity hole” formed at least 70 million years ago after convection in Earth’s mantle. The weak gravity could impact our ...