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The last ice age ended less than twenty thousand years ago.
Scientists believe that there will be more ice ages in the future, caused by tiny changes in the Earth's orbit and rotation.
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This endangered California species has survived ice ages, livestock disease and climate change.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2024
Whether it was major ice ages or meteor impacts, these changes encompass everything from the shape of our continents to the composition of our oceans.
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2024
Its three suns move and align in such a way as to create regular but random apocalyptic events, from infernal heat to sudden ice ages to gravitational vortexes, that destroy the civilization again and again.
From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2024
Oceans adjust atmospheric CO2 as ice ages transition to warmer climates by releasing the greenhouse gas from carbon stored within the deep ocean.
From Science Daily • Jan. 21, 2024
One interesting theory, given our present-day concerns with global warming, is that the ice ages were caused not by falling temperatures but by warming ones.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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