Skip to main content
Aerial photograph of submerged stone field boundaries on Samson Flats, Isles of Scilly. Credit: Historic England Archive
sprep-pa

Rising sea levels will affect coasts and human societies in complex and unpredictable ways, according to a new study that examined 12,000 years in which a large island became a cluster of smaller ones. Researchers reconstructed sea-level rise to produce maps of coastal changes at thousand-year intervals and found that today's Isles of Scilly, off the UK's south-west coast, emerged from a single island...

Original Article