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The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

This epoch is more commonly known as the Ice Age. "This is a major, major find for this time period, and we're still working with all of the remains," Johnson said.

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Our next ice age is due in 10,000 years, but there's a catch Fred Schwaller 03/03/2025 Scientists have predicted future glacial periods by matching Earth's past ice ages to its orbit around the sun.

The period we live in now, called the Holocene, began some 11,700 years ago when the last ice age ended. It's known as an interglacial period, or a time between ice ages.