Scientists found that sea levels rose rapidly 11,700 years ago due to melting ice sheets and sudden lake drainage.

New geological data has given more insight into the rate and magnitude of global sea level rise following the last ice age, ...

Now, new geological data show that sea levels rose about 125 feet (38 meters) between 11,000 and 3,000 years ago, according ...

Around 14,500 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age, melting continental ice sheets drove a sudden and cataclysmic ...

And by 2050, the median relative sea level rise is projected to be between 45 cm and 50 cm. The Yangtze Delta where Shanghai ...

Sea level rise is a catastrophe emerging slowly and ... regions that including many populous cities such as Miami, Mumbai, ...

BUT THE ICE IS MELTING. FAST. THE GREENLAND ICE CAP IS NOW THE THE LARGEST CONTRIBUTOR TO GLOBAL SEA LEVEL RISE. IT’S OUTSTRIPPED THE GENERAL WARMING OF THE OCEAN, AND IT’S CONTRIBUTING MORE ...

Oceans are rising, and as the world gets hotter, it's happening more quickly. The rate of sea level rise in 2024 was faster than NASA scientists were expecting. The Post and Courier’s Rising ...

Until now, the rates and extent of sea level rise during the early Holocene were poorly understood because of a lack of sound geological data from this period. Researchers from Deltares, the ...

Sarah Kaplan and Bonnie Jo Mount traveled to four islands of the Seychelles and a geochemistry lab in Madison, Wis. to document how fossil corals are helping scientists predict future sea level rise.