Vikings occupied Greenland from roughly 985 to 1450, farming and building communities before abandoning their settlements and mysteriously vanishing. Why they disappeared has long been a puzzle, but a new paper from the Harvard University Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS) determines that one factor—rising sea level—likely played a major role.
Click here for original story, Researchers describe sea-level rise in southwest Greenland as a contributor to Viking abandonment
Source: Phys.org