Coastal flooding Archives - Ocean and Coastal Futures

10 Mar 2026

Global sea level rise underestimated for decades, putting millions more at risk, study finds

Photo by Iqro Rinaldi Coastal sea levels around the world are significantly higher than assumed in most scientific risk assessments, a finding that could place tens of millions more people in the path of flooding than previously understood. The study, published in Nature, reviewed 385 peer-reviewed papers on sea level rise and coastal hazards published between […]

16 Apr 2019

EFRA Committee inquiry into coastal flooding and adaptation to climate change

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The Environment Agency’s Climate Change impacts and adaptation report (2018) highlighted that it may not be cost effective to protect or adapt some of England’s coastline as currently planned. Some coastal flood defences may possibly fail as sea levels rise, meaning some currently defended land may not continue to be defended from flooding in the […]