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

Samples drilled from deep beneath the sea have revealed just how much global sea levels changed following the last ice age.

A new study published in Nature provides key insights into sea level rise after the last ice age, around 11,700 years ago.

Ever since the Pre-Cambrian (600 million years ago), ice ages have occurred at widely spaced intervals of geologic time - approximately 200 million years - lasting for millions, or even tens of ...

Natural cycles in Earth's rotational axis and its orbit around the sun drive climatic changes, and now researchers have ...

New research provides precise estimates, offering the first glimpse into sea level rise during the early Holocene. Read the ...

Global sea level will rise rapidly in the coming century; perhaps by more than 1 metre.  This is primarily caused by  increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases (source: IPCC). Submerged peat ...

New geological data has given more insight into the rate and magnitude of global sea level rise following the last ice age, about 11,700 years ago ...

The study, titled "The Neoproterozoic Glacial Broom," is published in Geology. By chemically analyzing ... "When these giant ice sheets melted, they triggered enormous floods that flushed minerals ...

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A pattern of encroaching and retreating ice sheets during and between ice ages has been shown to match certain orbital parameters of Earth around the sun, leading to researchers being able to ...