Around 128,000 years ago, the temperatures in the Bahamas were one to two degrees higher than they are today. A group of geologists and geodynamicists from Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory visited the area in 2019 to gain a better understanding of how high sea levels were back then—and how future climate change might further exacerbate the effect of surging sea levels on land.
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Source: Phys.org