The new rules require development in coastal flood zones to be elevated 4 feet higher to account for future sea level rise.

Severe flooding hits Palisades Medical Center in Hudson County, N.J., on Oct. 30. (Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu/Getty Images via Inside Climate News) This story originally appeared on Inside Climate ...

If heat-trapping pollution from burning coal, oil and gas continues unchecked, thousands of hazardous sites across the United States risk being flooded from sea level rise by the turn of the century, ...

How high will the ocean rise under climate change? By 2050, scientists have a pretty good idea. But why does it matter where you live? And what... Why sea level rise after 2050 is a mystery Why sea ...

Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution revealed on December 17, 2025, that the rate of U.S. coastal sea-level rise has more than doubled over the past 125 years, jumping from 1.7 ...

Over the next decade, rising oceans are poised to redraw the edges of some of the world’s best known coastal cities, turning today’s “once in a century” floods into regular events and pushing salt ...

What impact can sea-level rise have on extreme floods in the future? This is what a recent study published in Coastal Futures hopes to address as a team of researchers will investigate long-term ...