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Study Reveals How Earth's Orbit Triggers Ice Ages, And There's One in The Next 11,000 Years


Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation before rising up again to the more temperate climes we experience today.

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