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Human carbon dioxide emissions could prevent next Ice Age

A team of scientists say that high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could prevent the next Ice Age. The scientists say that even if carbon emissions stopped today, enough has accumulated in the atmosphere to prevent the next Ice Age glaciation.

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Ice Age remains found in Britain

Nottingham - Archaeological remains from the Ice Age have been found near Nottinghamshire by workmen widening the A46 to turn it into a dual carriageway.

In the Media by Sarah Shannon

Debate ends on central cause of earth's cooling and warming

As the carbon dioxide management bill - aka cap and trade - looms in Congress, a new study emerges that ends the scientific debate on the central causes of ice ages and warming periods on Earth.

In the Media by Michael Krebs - 27 comments

Plants saved the Earth from an icy doom

Fifty million years ago, the North and South Poles were ice-free and crocodiles roamed the Arctic. Since then, a long-term decrease in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has cooled the Earth.

In the Media by Bob Ewing - 1 comment

13,000 Year-Old Mammoth Etching Could Be America's Oldest Art

The oldest known artist in North America may have been a hunter during the Ice Age. An anthropologist is making that claim after examining an etching on a 13,000-year-old bone found near Vero Beach, Florida.

In the Media by KJ Mullins - 5 comments

Study: Post-pandemic Reforestation in New World Helped Trigger Little Ice Age

There has been growing evidence for the hypothesis that the effect of the pandemics in the Americas wasn't confined to killing indigenous peoples. Global climate appears to have been altered as well.

In the Media by Bob Ewing - 3 comments

Lack of Sunspot Activity Equals Ice Age

No observable sunspots in the month of August correlates to a paper by two astronomers refused in 2005 by the journal Science for being too controversial. And is a possible signal of an Ice Age on the way. Not global warming!

In the Media by Gar Swaffar

Little Ice Age On The Way?

A researcher at the Institute of Geophysics has made the incredible assertion of an Ice Age not Global Warming as the next planetary weather event,

In the Media by Gar Swaffar - 73 comments

Ice Age Art In Jeopardy

In the Dordogne region of southwest France, lies a cave that houses Ice Age art dating back some 17,000 years ago. The walls and the art on them are now being consumed by bacteria and an unidentified black fungus.

In the Media by Debra Myers - 19 comments

Ice age 3 - Scratty discovers time machine

Scrat discovers a time machine and uses it ! Enjoy !

In the Media by Gab - 2 comments

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Carbon emissions 'defer Ice Age'

The next Ice Age is due within 1,500 years, researchers calculate - but greenhouse gas emissions mean it will not happen then.

Little Ice Age's volcanic origin

The Little Ice Age began in the 1300s due to the cooling effect of big volcanic eruptions and was sustained by changes in Arctic ice, scientists conclude.

Nordic trees 'survived Ice Age'

DNA evidence suggests some Scandinavian trees survived the last Ice Age, contradicting the widely held notion that vegetation was wiped out by a great ice sheet.

Russian scientists germinate ice-age seed

Scientists in Russia have made a major breakthrough in permafrost research - they have germinated a 32,000-year-old ice-age seed.

AUDIO: Will global warming prevent an ice age?

Dr Luke Skinner of the department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge explains why the current levels of carbon dioxide could have prevented another ice-age.