Cultures worldwide are awash with tales of great floods. What can they tell us about the reality of a wetter world?

Climate change is a true existential threat for small island nations, but the US has done little to help the Marshall Islands, which it administered for decades.

New research has mapped sea-level rise around the Isles of Scilly over the last 12,000 years.

Birds found along the Gulf Coast have evolved to ride out hurricanes and tropical storms. But with development degrading the marshes where they live, it's getting harder for them to bounce back.

Greenland's glaciers have retreated so far that they can no longer support the ice sheet that feeds them. The ice sheet system has reached a new normal of consistent annual ice loss.

Rising sea levels may trap more people than are displaced.

It's not just about the hurricane. How high a storm surge gets and how far it reaches also has a lot to do with the land.

It's not just about the hurricane. How high a storm surge gets and how far it reaches also has a lot to do with the land.

Sea levels could be two metres higher by 2100. How will our relationship to the drowned coast change?

A new study suggests raising dykes along a third of Europe's coastline, but there are more cost-effective options.