New study solves long-standing mystery of what may have triggered ice age

Combining advanced climate model simulations with marine sediment analyses, a new study revealed a previously unknown mechanism that may have triggered massive ice sheets to form in Scandinavia, ringing in the last glacial period some 100,000 years ago.  

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