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changes that occurred during the last ice age
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Ground sloths achieved their greatest size during the last ice age—right before starting to disappear around 15,000 years ago.
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Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2025
Generated by ash clouds from three separate volcanic eruptions around 540 C.E., this ice age — the Late Antique Little Ice Age — blocked out the sun and cooled the surface of Earth for some 200 to 300 years, potentially playing a part in the empire’s end.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
Ice sheets once covered much of the Northern Hemisphere during the ice age.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 22 May 2025
For other cities along the East Coast and Great Lakes area, such as New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., the sinking primarily comes as the land slowly settles after the melting of glaciers from the last ice age.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2025
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Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2025
Generated by ash clouds from three separate volcanic eruptions around 540 C.E., this ice age — the Late Antique Little Ice Age — blocked out the sun and cooled the surface of Earth for some 200 to 300 years, potentially playing a part in the empire’s end.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
Ice sheets once covered much of the Northern Hemisphere during the ice age.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 22 May 2025
For other cities along the East Coast and Great Lakes area, such as New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., the sinking primarily comes as the land slowly settles after the melting of glaciers from the last ice age.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2025
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“Ice age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20age. Accessed 8 Jun. 2025.
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