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Big Freeze: Earth Could Plunge Into Sudden Ice Age | LiveScience
Science & Tech  (tags: ice age, environment, climate change, science, world, study )

Angela
- 15 days ago - livescience.com
Looking ahead to the future, there is no reason why such a freeze shouldn't happen again -- and in ironic fashion it could be precipitated if ongoing changes in climate force the Greenland ice sheet to suddenly melt, scientists say.
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When Genes Tell Species to Go Extinct
Science & Tech  (tags: scientists, study, research, ice age, extinction, discovery )

Simone
- 137 days ago - scienceblog.com
The ice age may have caused the extinction of dinosaurs and the woolly mammoths may have disappeared because of declining sources of food, but extinction doesn't always have to be due to environmental triggers, as scientists at the University of
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Solar Cycle 24: A Little Slow On The Uptake
Science & Tech  (tags: solar cycle 24, solar, sun, earth, space, astronomy, science, tech, technology, research, news, world, environment, ice age, little ice age, maunder minimum, solar maximum, 2012, humans, energy, interesting )

SirRobert
- 241 days ago - physorg.com
Solar Cycle #24 has stalled and gives rise to some very pertinent questions: Has our sun entered a maunder minimum and did that cause the Little Ice Age? Could this be happening again right now, or will the 2011-2012 solar maximum become hyperactive???
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'Pickled' Baby Mammoth Opens Window to Ice Age
Science & Tech  (tags: Science, discovery, ice age, research, Mammoth, study, interesting )

Dee
- 248 days ago - usatoday.com
A baby mammoth dubbed Lyuba had her brief life cut short in a swamp 40,000 years ago, but the well-preserved specimen will provide the world a window into the extinct creatures from the Ice Age.
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Ice Age Aliens
Science & Tech  (tags: Ice Age, aliens, galaxies, universe, interesting, humans )

Ingrid
- 311 days ago - spacedaily.com
Could an alien astronomer have detected life on Earth during an ice age? Recent work has calculated how past climate extremes affected the light reflected from vegetation out into space.
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Study: 'Astonishing Richness' In Polar Ocean Species
Science & Tech  (tags: oceans, polar oceans, marine life, census, research, science, tech, world, news, ecosystems, arctic, antarctic, species, scientists, biology, study, marine biology, classification, environment, discovery, ice age, habitat, nature, interesting )

SirRobert
- 311 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
A newly released marine census of ocean life has documented 7,500 species in the Antarctic and 5,500 in the Arctic, including several hundred that researchers believe to be new to science.
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Earth On The Brink Of An Ice Age
Science & Tech  (tags: russia, pravda, Ice Age, Earth, geology, climate science, climatology, snowball Earth, climate, climate-change, climatechange, destruction, environment, globalwarming, habitatdestruction, humans, nature, oceans, politics, world, concept, discovery, humans )

SirRobert
- 347 days ago - english.pravda.ru
(Pravda) - Climate Change Ice-Core Multiple Source Data: The Earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age!
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Ice Age Geology Revealed at Ground Zero
Science & Tech  (tags: Ground zero, World Trade Center, ice age, geology, New York )

Eduardo
- 458 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Crews excavating the World Trade Center site this summer for the foundations of a new skyscraper have uncovered features carved into the bedrock by glaciers about 20,000 years ago, including a 40-foot-deep pothole.
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Ice Age Finds Return to Llandudno
Science & Tech  (tags: discovery, Ice Age, research )

Ingrid
- 632 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Rare ice age objects found on Llandudno's Great Orme are being reunited at the town museum for the first time in nearly a hundred years.
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Evidence Of Ice Age Hunters: 28 Palaeolithic Handaxes Found In North Sea
Science & Tech  (tags: archaeology, axes, Ice Age, interesting )

Ingrid
- 652 days ago - sciencedaily.com
An amazing haul of 28 flint hand-axes, dated by archaeologists to be around 100,000 years-old, have been unearthed in gravel from a licensed marine aggregate dredging area 13km off Great Yarmouth.
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Ice Age Axes Found in North Sea
Science & Tech  (tags: mammoth hunters, ice age, archaeology, axes )

Ingrid
- 654 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Axes from the Ice Age used by mammoth hunters when the North Sea was dry have been found from under the water off the Norfolk coast.
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Great Beasts Peppered From Space
Science & Tech  (tags: ice age, mammoths, bison, mastodon, giant sloth, sabre-toothed tigers, animals, space, meteorites, impacts, discovery, evidence, DNA, scientists, research, extinction )

Laurel
- 743 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Startling evidence has been found which shows mammoth and other great beasts from the last ice age were blasted with material that came from space.
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ICE AGE Sabertooth Was a Pussy Cat
Science & Tech  (tags: scientists, research, discovery, ICE AGE )

Jocelyn
- 811 days ago - enn.com
SYDNEY - The Ice Age sabertooth, with its large protruding fangs, was actually a bit of a pussycat, according to Australian scientists who studied the power of its bite and hunting skills. While most people rank the sabertooth alongside the
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Failing Ocean Current Raises Fears of Mini Ice Age
Science & Tech  (tags: ocean, currents, ice age, science )

Eduardo
- 811 days ago - newscientist.com
The ocean current that gives western Europe its relatively balmy climate is stuttering, raising fears that it might fail entirely and plunge the continent into a mini ice age.
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