News From the Field Ice Age Lesson Predicts a Faster Rise in Sea Level
September 2, 2008
| If the lessons being learned by scientists about the demise of the last great North American ice sheet are correct, estimates of global sea level rise from a melting Greenland ice sheet may be seriously underestimated. A team of researchers led by University of Wisconsin-Madison geologist Anders Carlson reports in this week's (Aug. 31) journal Nature Geoscience. Full story |
Source University of Wisconsin-Madison
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