Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. North American ice sheets—not Antarctica—drove most of the sea-level rise between 9,000 and 7,000 years ago. (CREDIT: Shutterstock ...
When the planet was heating up at the end of the last Ice Age, ice-melt flooded out by glaciers made oceans rise. Scientists for decades believed that most meltwater had originated from Antarctica.