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

By determining which ice sheets melted to create a colossal increase in sea levels 14,500 years ago, scientists hope to enable better predictions of ...

Despite the scale of the event, known as Meltwater Pulse 1a, scientists still aren’t sure which ice sheets were responsible for shedding all that water. Now, researchers from Brown University ...