Study links sea-level rise to more coastal flooding (opens in new tab)

A study published Wednesday in Nature Climate Change links human-driven sea-level rise to a roughly fourfold increase in the frequency of extreme coastal sea-level events since 1900. It found that extreme coastal flooding events with a 1% annual chance in 1900 are now, on average, about 12 times more likely to occur. The researchers analyzed long-term tide-gauge records and climate model simulations at 130 sites worldwide to separate human activity, natural forces and local land movement. For...