Parts of North America and other continents are slowly rising due to an effect called post-glacial rebound. That much geologists knew. But it turns out this slow recovery is also causing a very ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Greenland experienced post-glacial rebound where the island uplifted several inches out of the ocean after a massive glacier fell from its land and into the ocean. UH found ...

The new estimates reflect the role that post-glacial rebound was found to play in current ice loss in Greenland and Antarctica. Post-glacial rebound is the response of the solid Earth to the ...

That land responds with something called post-glacial rebound, in which it starts to bounce back up to its pre-glacial configuration, according to AntarcticGlaciers.org. The effects aren’t ...

Already threatened by sea level rise, New York City is sinking between 1 and 4 millimeters per year due to a combination of glacial rebound and the weight of its more than one million buildings.