Telegraph: The melting of the vast ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland caused water to pour into the world’s oceans at an alarming rate at the end of the last period of global warming, the study shows. Analysis of fossilised coral reefs off the Gulf of Mexico found many died during this time — known to climatologists as an “interglacial” — and were replaced by new reefs on higher ground. This happened over a long-term ecological timescale and was caused by a rapid jump in sea level …