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Earth’s Next Ice Age Might Already Be on the Way—Here’s What Scientists Just Discovered
Earth’s climate has never been static. It shifts between warm interglacial periods and deep freezes, driven by complex ...
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The next ice age is coming in 10,000 years — unless climate change prevents it
Natural cycles in Earth's rotational axis and its orbit around the sun drive climatic changes, and now researchers have ...
The Next Ice Age Is 10,000 Years Away, Or Is It?
For millions of years, Earth's climate has been driven by natural cycles linked to its orbit, shifting between ice ages and warm interglacial periods. A new study has uncovered a clear, predictable ...
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Next ice age would hit Earth in 11,000 years if it weren't for climate change, scientists say
Changes in Earth's tilt relative to the sun have governed the movements of giant ice sheets over the past 800,000 years, triggering the start and end of eight ice ages ... researchers estimated that ...
The end of the housing market's Ice Age
The housing market's Ice Age is finally thawing, with buyers and sellers showing signs that they're ready to get moving again ...
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A looming ice age? Scientists find a striking pattern in Earth's history.
An ice age should begin in about 10,000 years ... which orbital characteristic has the most influence on the start and end of ice ages, according to a news release from the University of ...
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End of the Big Beasts
They also stand in three decidedly different camps regarding why America's rich complement of big animals went extinct quite suddenly at the end of the Ice Age. The three camps are known tongue in ...
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The Fenn Cache
The Clovis were a prehistoric people who flourished in North America at the end of the Ice Age, hunting mammoths and other big game with spear points not unlike this one. To make the point ...
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From dire wolves to giant bears: Meet the North American animals of the ice age
Unfortunately, the shifting climate at the end of the ice age, combined with the competition with humans for food, led to the demise of the dire wolf and many other ancient predators about 10,000 ...
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The Modern Ice Age begins
It emerged as the warm Pliocene ended and the Modern Ice Age began, when a cooler, drier planetary phase commenced. This change also triggered the end of the African forests that sheltered our ...
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Neolithic and Bronze Ages
Following the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the levels of the North Sea began to rise as waters formerly locked up in great ice sheets melted. Sometime after about 8200 BC the ...
A looming ice age? Scientists find a striking pattern in Earth's history.
Scientists say small changes in the way the Earth orbits the sun hold the key in major global changes in climate, like ice ages.