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3 days ago · ice age, any geologic period during which thick ice sheets cover vast areas of land. Such periods of large-scale glaciation may last several million years and drastically reshape surface features of entire continents. A number of major ice ages have occurred throughout Earth history.
3 days ago · Climate change - Global Cooling, Ice Age, Human Impact: The Earth system has undergone a general cooling trend for the past 50 million years, culminating in the development of permanent ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere about 2.75 million years ago.
2 days ago · The Ice Age, which peaked around 20,000 years ago, offers a window into dramatic climate shifts that reshaped Earth’s oceans, landscapes, and ecosystems. Researchers now believe that this frigid epoch could provide crucial insights into future El Niño weather events, one of the most influential climate patterns affecting global weather today.
1 day ago · The Little Ice Age (LIA) was a period of regional cooling, particularly pronounced in the North Atlantic region. [ 2 ] It was not a true ice age of global extent. [ 3 ] The term was introduced into scientific literature by François E. Matthes in 1939. [ 4 ]
2 days ago · Read science articles on the ice age, glaciation and climatology. Discover the connection between ice ages and global warming.
4 days ago · glacier, any large mass of perennial ice that originates on land by the recrystallization of snow or other forms of solid precipitation and that shows evidence of past or present flow. Exact limits for the terms large, perennial, and flow cannot be set.
5 days ago · The last ice age peaked around 20,000 years ago and was marked by extensive glaciation and dramatic climate shifts that reshaped Earth's oceans, landscapes and ecosystems. A new study led by the ...
