Climate change may have cancelled an ice age we were due for
Original headline: We'd Be Entering an Ice Age Right Now if Climate Change Hadn't Terminated It, Study Suggests
Plot twist The canceled ice age wasn't some distant event: a study suggests it would have been starting right about now. Catch up on the original →
What happened
A study suggests Earth would naturally be entering an ice age now, but human-driven climate change has terminated that cycle. Researchers describe the ice age as an extremely natural and predictable phenomenon that is now gone.