Modern rates of sea-level rise started developing in 1863 as the Industrial Age progressed, corresponding with signs for early ocean warming as well as glacier melt, according to an international team of researchers led by Rutgers academics. The research will ...

Our planet’s ice cover started to melt quickly at the beginning of the 20th century. The sea ice and the glaciers in the Antarctic and Arctic areas are now melting at alarming rates. The recent statistics, however, should worry us ...