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A new study gives an alternative reason why Vikings left Greenland despite conquering it years before.

For years, researchers have sought to understand why Vikings abandoned one of their settlements in Greenlan...

For the better part of four centuries, Greenlands southern coast defined the westernmost edge of Viking occupation.

A breakthrough study has shown that a prolonged drought, not the Little Ice Age, drove the Greenland Vikings to abandon their 400-450-year-old settlements.

A new study led by UMass Amherst suggests that increasing aridity, not temperature change, contributed to the Norse abandonment of Greenland settlements in the 15th century.

Researchers from University of Massachusetts Amherst have analysed sediment samples taken from a Greenland lake adjacent to a former Norse farm.

Vikings were forced to flee Greenland several centuries ago due to drastically rising sea levels from climate change. New research conducted by scientists has revealed that a combination of growing ice sheets as well as rising sea levels during the 15th century caused catastrophic coastal flooding. These environmental changes destroyed numerous farms and eventually left... Read more »

Climate change that led to sea level rise and severe coastal flooding could explain why the Vikings abandoned their Greenland settlements.