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The article discusses the impact of climate change on sea levels and predictions that nations including the Maldives, Kiribati, and Bangladesh will lose much of their land area and citizens will be displaced. Topics discussed include the role of greenhouse gas emissions and other alleged human causes of climate change, the use of groundwater in Bangladesh and how this contributes to rising sea levels, and the social justice aspects of climate change.

The article reports on the study conducted by graduate student Samantha Apgar, ornithologist Christopher Elphick and Cornell Lab of Ornithology staff on the plight of saltmarsh sparrows in the era of rising sea levels and climate change. Also cited are the sharp decline in the birds' population, the threat posed by rising sea levels on their nesting grounds and habitat, as well as the high number of hatchling deaths due to drowning.

The article looks at the crisis facing low-lying airports around the world as sea levels rise and extreme weather brought about by climate change. It forecasts greenhouse gas emissions from international air travel by 2050 and discusses potential effects of global warming on the aviation industry. It highlights initiatives of airports in defense of floods that include installation of flood walls at La Guardia Airport in New York and rainwater pumps at Kansai International Airport in Japan.

The article discusses a March 2014 report by the United Nations' (UN) group the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that stated climate change is having an impact on all continents and will continue to worsen unless greenhouse emissions are reduced. Topics discussed include the rising of ocean levels, the threat climate change poses to the world's food supply, and the possibility that climate change will increase poverty around the world.

The article reports that remote Pacific nation of Kiribati may become uninhabitable in near future due to rising sea levels caused by climate change.

The article reports on the association of human-induced climate change to the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012. Climate scientists attribute the storm surge along the Atlantic coast to sea-level rise caused by the greenhouse gas emissions from humans. They believe that the rate of water rise will continue to increase noting that ocean water expands when warm.