icehouse
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As ice locked up water, vast shallow seas dried out, triggering an "icehouse climate" and radically altering ocean chemistry.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 11, 2026
The musician, who would become synonymous with Key West, started leasing the old icehouse in the city’s historic seaport district in 1986.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
And as we well know from our present habit of turning an icehouse climate into a greenhouse one, an altered climate dramatically affects life on our planet.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2024
The Earth today is like an icehouse, with ice sheets at both poles and comparatively lower carbon dioxide concentrations, but this has been rare rather than commonplace through the planet's history.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2024
With its walled garden, an icehouse, and a stable with room for twelve horses, Morris’s home was among the grandest in what was then America’s largest, most prosperous city.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
He walked the beat among the icehouses and lower-income neighborhoods of a mostly Black community, and never had a problem.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2023
It is revealing that when Opie does include people or their idiosyncratic structures — the icehouses, surfers, football players — they are uniting in inhospitable settings.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2021
The urban farmer within each of us can thrill to the smell of freshly sawn tree trunks, to cogs and pulleys, icehouses and watercourses.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 2, 2019
For her book she sought out the history of the structures that rural living required — springhouses, smokehouses, icehouses, corn cribs, barns, etc. — and harvested those that remain.
From Washington Post ● May 1, 2018
Elsewhere, however, the ice was strong, for all the cutting for the big icehouses had been done long before near the Landing.
From Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret by Carr, Annie Roe
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