Vietnam is following in the footsteps of rival Spratly Islands claimant China in building military-purposed infrastructure, ...

It's Beijing's latest move to assert sovereignty over the hotly disputed atoll in the South China Sea, satellite images ...

Sea ice plays many important roles for the global climate: Its white surface can reflect energy back into space, helping the ...

China's overall level of debt has topped 300% of GDP and is likely to climb further, but the central bank will continue to ...

Modern society, and the clean energy revolution, depend on rare earth elements. Can Greenland help break China's stranglehold on the market?

China’s glacier area has shrunk by 26% since 1960 due to rapid global warming, with 7,000 small glaciers disappearing ...

A study using ground-penetrating radar (GPR) has identified the optimal planting density for Mongolia pine plantations in ...

Community engagement for Plan Change 85 Natural Hazards Issues and Options is now open. This is a significant first step in ...

Rates of sea level rise peaked at more than 0.4 inch (10 millimeters) per year, or about 40 inches (1 meter) per century. For ...

Communities in coastal areas such as Florida, shown in this 1992 NASA image, are vulnerable to the effects of sea level rise, including high-tide flooding. A new agency-led analysis found a ...

In previous years, two-thirds of sea level rise resulted from meltwater from glaciers and ice sheets, while one-third came from thermal expansion. In 2024, however, those proportions flipped ...

“The rise we saw in 2024 was higher than we expected,” said Josh Willis, a sea level researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “Every year is a little bit different, but ...