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The Next Ice Age Began Under the Roman Empire, Researchers Say, Until Global Warming Stopped It

23 October 2026 at 15:45
About 2,000 years ago, while Augustus ruled Rome, a leftover patch of ice in the Canadian Arctic stopped shrinking and began to grow. A team from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, part of Columbia University, argues that this turning point marked the beginning of the next glaciation, what most people would call the next ice age. […]

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