Boston and other cities were inundated with water.
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Human-caused global warming has led to a huge spike in coastal flooding events in the U.S., which may get much worse as the climate warms.
Blizzard watches are up for Washington, D.C., and New York City for a life-threatening combination of heavy snow and strong winds.
Californians may be used to hearing about the threat of potentially deadly earthquakes, but a new study finds that quake-triggered tsunamis pose a greater risk to Southern California than previously thought.
Even if world manages to limit global warming to 2°C — the target number for current climate negotiations — sea levels may still rise at least 6 meters (20 feet) above their current heights.
Sea level rise is a game of millimeters a year, but those millimeters add up to a huge amount of water entering the world’s oceans.
New York City is facing dramatically higher odds of coastal flooding from sea level rise and storms, with seawalls potentially breached once every four years, a new study found.