ice age

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By filling in this missing piece, they now believe that periods of global warming can swing too far in the opposite direction, potentially setting the stage for an ice age.

From Science Daily

This area contains a series of long, shallow grooves set within a landscape of deep valleys, scattered impact craters, and surface textures that point to a distant ice age on the Red Planet.

From Science Daily

The glacier shed eight kilometers of ice in that short period, a pace comparable to the rapid withdrawals that marked the end of the last ice age.

From Science Daily

This revealed that, nearly 11,000 years ago, just after the last ice age, dog skulls started to change shape.

From BBC

"During the last ice age, there was almost no cosmic dust in the Arctic sediments," he said.

From Science Daily