Global warming may have halted an emerging ice age, study suggests

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Oct 22, 2026, 2:00 pm127 ptsTrending
Two thousand years ago, the Arctic remnants of a once-vast ice sheet started to grow again. It was the beginning of a new glacial period, more conversationally known as the next ice age—but by the 1960s, summer temperatures were already so high that the ice sheet started to shrink. In other words, global…

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