A new study published in Nature provides key insights into sea level rise after the last ice age, around 11,700 years ago. Using data from the North Sea region, researchers found that sea levels ...

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. This information is of great importance to ...

Understanding past sea level change is necessary for predicting future sea level rise. The main contributors to sea level variability are ice sheet change, ocean water temperature change (e.g ...

Science New Study Reinforces Worries About Pulses of Rapid Sea Level Rise An analysis of peat layers at the bottom of the North Sea shows how fast sea level rose during the end of the last ice age ...

Archaeologists delve beneath Denmark's Bay of Aarhus to uncover submerged Stone Age settlements. The European Union-funded ...

For the first time, scientists from Utrecht, the UK and the US have been able to determine how sea level must have varied on thousand-year timescales during the last 540 million years.

An analysis of peat from ancient wetlands provides a reconstruction of how sea level increased millennia ago — and how it might rise again with global warming.