A satellite scheduled to launch from California later this month will measure sea level rise and provide other crucial data to scientists who study how global warming is affecting the Earth's oceans.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — It is a measurement at the center of concern and anxiety over climate change, a slow-moving threat marking the insidious danger posed by the ocean, which surrounds Staten Island ...

For the first time, NASA has the tools and expertise to understand the rate at which sea level is changing, some of the mechanisms that drive those changes and the effects that sea level change may ...

It’s now clear that sea levels are rising around the world.An international fleet of satellites is showing that they have already risen an average of nearly 3 inches since 1992, with some ocean areas ...

While satellites have revolutionized our ability to measure sea level with remarkable precision, their data becomes less reliable near coasts—where accurate information is most urgently needed.

In the mid-fifteen-hundreds, a Swedish peasant named Nils lived on an island called Iggön in the Baltic Sea. He was known to his neighbors as Rich Nils, apparently because of the plenitude of fish in ...

Space is the best place — maybe the only place — to get a complete picture of how climate change is affecting the Earth's oceans. And what... A satellite scheduled to launch from California later this ...