# A New Ice Age Was Beginning. Then Humans Started Burning Fossil Fuels

- Source: WIRED
- Published: 2026-10-22T18:00:00+00:00
- Category: Tech
- Original: https://www.wired.com/story/ice-age-beginning-then-humans-started-burning-fossil-fuels/
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/a-new-ice-age-was-beginning-then-humans-started-burning-fossil-fuels-399e87/

Ancient plants reveal that the vestiges of the North American ice sheet started expanding a few thousand years ago, but that climate change caused it to reverse course.

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