SATELLITES SHOW WARMING IS ACCELERATING SEA LEVEL RISE AS GREENLAND AND ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS MELT

Sea level rise is caused by warming of the ocean and melting from glaciers and ice sheets... READ MORE›

RISING SEA LEVELS THREAT: A SHRINKING EUROPEAN COASTLINE IN 2100?

Monitoring sea levels is key to tracking the evolution of our climate, says Jean-Noel Thepaut, Head of the Copernicus Climate Change Service... READ MORE›

US GOVERNMENT CLIMATE REPORT LOOKS AT HOW THE OCEANS ARE BUFFERING CLIMATE CHANGE

John Abraham A key chapter of the US Global Change Research Program Report deals with how the oceans are being impacted by human carbon pollution... READ MORE›

AMERICAN LEADERS SHOULD READ THEIR OFFICIAL CLIMATE SCIENCE REPORT

What the report also shows is that the biggest uncertainty in future climate change is us... READ MORE›

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'EXTRAORDINARY' LEVELS OF POLLUTANTS FOUND IN 10KM DEEP MARIANA TRENCH

She said the new research showed that the deep ocean trenches are not as isolated as people imagine... READ MORE›

EARTH'S OCEANS ARE WARMING 13% FASTER THAN THOUGHT, AND ACCELERATING

Over 90 percent of the extra heat ends up in the ocean and hence perhaps the most important measurements of global warming are made in the oceans... READ MORE›

EARTHQUAKE JOLTS NEW ZEALAND; TSUNAMI WARNING ISSUED

New Zealand emergency services warned that a tsunami was possible and told people near the coast of the South Island to move to higher ground... READ MORE›

WHAT THE DUTCH CAN TEACH THE WORLD ABOUT MANAGING FLOODS

Prior to his mission to take Dutch water management expertise around the world, Ovink was the Netherlands' chief of water management and spatial planning ... READ MORE›

FUKUSHIMA: ROBOT IMAGES SHOW MASSIVE DEPOSITS THOUGHT TO BE MELTED NUCLEAR FUEL

Robot spots suspected debris of melted fuel for first time since 2011 earthquake and tsunami destroyed the plant... READ MORE›

TSUNAMI WARNINGS AFTER 7.8 QUAKE STRIKES OFF SOLOMON ISLANDS' COAST

Another earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit 66km west of Kirakira, Solomon Islands, according to USGS... READ MORE›

TRUMP REJECTS CLIMATE CHANGE, BUT MAR-A-LAGO COULD BE LOST TO THE SEA

Donald Trump shelled out 409,759 for property taxes in 2016 on Mar-a-Lago, his oceanfront club above billionaire's row in Palm Beach, Fla... READ MORE›

WORLD'S DEEPEST FISH FOUND IN PACIFIC OCEAN'S MARIANA TRENCH

Video World's deepest fish found in Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench... READ MORE›

MARINE FOOD CHAINS AT RISK OF COLLAPSE, EXTENSIVE STUDY OF WORLD'S OCEANS FINDS

Meanwhile, warming of the oceans is causing water to thermally expand, fuelling sea level rises caused by melting land ice... READ MORE›

NARWHALS ARE HELPING NASA UNDERSTAND MELTING ICE AND RISING SEAS

The narwhals like it, said Josh Willis, the project lead for NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland... READ MORE›

SEA LEVEL RISE WILL DOUBLE COASTAL FLOOD RISK WORLDWIDE

The research takes in to account the large waves and storm surges that can tip gradually rising sea levels over the edge of coastal defences... READ MORE›

ROBOT FINDS POSSIBLE MELTED NUCLEAR FUEL

An underwater robot spotted the lava-like rocks inside a reactor of Japan's destroyed nuclear plant... READ MORE›

SUPERCARRIER FORD TO JOIN NAVY FLEET IN SEPTEMBER

Hide Caption 23 of 29 29 photos U.S. aircraft carriers The Essex-class USS Franklin burns after being hit by a Japanese dive bomber in 1945... READ MORE›

WHAT WILL BE THE BIG ENVIRONMENT EVENTS IN 2017?

The global climate debate will be dominated by whether the president-elect Donald Trump withdraws the US from the Paris global agreement to reduce emissions... READ MORE›

CHINA AND JAPAN IN ICE-BREAKER TALKS

Awkward Relations between China and Japan have long been soured by a row over islands in the East China Sea... READ MORE›

7.8-MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE HITS ECUADOR - VIDEO

At least 77 people were killed when a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Ecuador, destroying buildings and a bridge and sending terrified residents dashing from their homes... READ MORE›

POSSIBLE NUCLEAR FUEL FIND RAISES HOPES OF FUKUSHIMA PLANT BREAKTHROUGH

Operator says it has seen what may be fuel debris beneath badly damaged No 2 reactor, destroyed six years ago in triple meltdown... READ MORE›

FIRST PICTURES OF NEW ISLAND FORMED BY UNDERWATER VOLCANO

Revealed First pictures of new island formed by underwater volcano... READ MORE›

100-YEAR-OLD AMERICAN WOMAN SEES THE OCEAN FOR THE FIRST TIME

Shimizu plans to build the Ocean Spiral from resin instead of concrete and to use industrial-scale three-dimensional printers to create the components... READ MORE›

1. ARE THE ECUADOR AND JAPAN EARTHQUAKES RELATED?

Here are five things to know about recent earthquakes in Japan and Ecuador... READ MORE›

HOTTEST EVER JUNE MARKS 14TH MONTH OF RECORD-BREAKING TEMPERATURES

Nasa's Walt Meir said the global temperatures have been exacerbated by extreme temperatures over the Arctic... READ MORE›

DUTCH PROTOTYPE CLEAN-UP BOOM BRINGS PACIFIC PLASTICS SOLUTION A STEP CLOSER

If all goes well, full-scale deployment of a 100km-long version will take place in the great Pacific garbage patch between California and Hawaii in 2020... READ MORE›

NEW ZEALAND ISN'T AN ISLAND AFTER ALL; SCIENTISTS SAY IT'S THE TIP OF A 'HIDDEN CONTINENT'

As measured by human landmarks, Zealandia encompasses New Zealand and the island of New Caledonia about 1,500 miles to the north... READ MORE›

ROGUE SUN COULD WIPE OUT LIFE ON EARTH

Still, falling water levels in the storage pool caused anxiety that the fuel rods within could be exposed to the atmosphere... READ MORE›

'YOU'D BE IN DENIAL TO BELIEVE THERE ISN'T LIFE OUT THERE'

There were all these planetary scientists talking about their favorite ocean worlds, Europa or Enceladus or whichever, he recalled... READ MORE›

COAL PLANTS USE AS MUCH WATER AS 1 BILLION PEOPLE AND CONSUMPTION SET TO DOUBLE

World Water Day research finds 44 percent of coal plants, and 45 percent of planned coal power plants, in areas of water stress... READ MORE›

Still, falling water levels in the storage pool caused anxiety that the fuel rods within could be exposed to the atmosphere... READ MORE›

JAPAN PAYS WORKER WHO GOT CANCER AFTER FUKUSHIMA

The ministry said the worker was exposed to 15.7 millisieverts of radiation during his 14 months at Fukushima Daiichi... READ MORE›

ANCIENT WATER CHANNELS AND SEA ICE

The Great Salt Lake is the largest water body in the US after the Great Lakes... READ MORE›

GLOBAL WARMING IS CAUSING MORE EXTREME STORMS

Every part of the continental United States has experienced increased very intense precipitation events... READ MORE›