image: Icebergs near Timiamuit, SE Greenland (left) and modern reef in the Seychelles (right) where fossil corals record global mean sea level 7.5 m higher than present during a previous warm period 125,000 years ago. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 10, 2015 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Dutton at University of Florida in Gainesville, FL, and colleagues was titled, 'Sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet mass loss during past warm periods.' view more
Credit: [Credit: Anthony Long/Dan Zwartz]