Sea level rise is already leading to longer commutes in coastal US

Flooding due to sea level rise has added an average of at least 23 minutes to the time people in the coastal US spend commuting over the course of a year. By 2060, even a modest amount of additional sea level rise could increase that delay ten-fold, amounting to billions of hours of wasted time for commuters.

“It’s here. It’s now. It’s a delay that is already occurring,” says Mathew Hauer at …