New research reveals that post-ice age sea levels rose over a meter per century during key periods and totaled about 38 ...

The research focuses on the Laurentide Ice Sheet, the massive expanse covering North America during ... the Ice Age's events -- changes in ocean temperatures could drive future sea level rise ...

If we keep burning fossil fuels indefinitely, global warming will eventually melt all the ice at the poles and on mountaintops, raising sea level by 216 feet. Explore what the world’s new ...

Now, new geological data show that sea levels rose about 125 feet (38 meters) between 11,000 and 3,000 years ago, according to a study published March 19 in the journal Nature. The findings could help ...

Until now, the rates and extent of sea level rise during the ... between ice sheet reconstructions and sea level data for this important period. 'This research helps us better understand sea level ...

Around 14,500 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age, melting continental ice sheets drove a sudden and cataclysmic sea level rise of up to 65 feet in just 500 years or less. Despite the ...

at the end of the last ice age, the last time Earth warmed as fast as it is warming now. The findings suggest sea level jumped by as much 3.3 feet per century during at least two separate periods ...

Doggerland was home to coastal marshlands during the ice age, but rising waters and marine sediments submerged and compressed the marshes as sea levels rose. The team analyzed the different ...