The edge of the world

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Original Load Date March 4, 2026, 10:03 a.m.
Last Updated March 4, 2026, 10:03 a.m.
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During our last ice age, twenty-five thousand years ago, a glacier covered much of the continent. Layered ice sheets stacked a mile downward. Twenty thousand years ago, [ temperatures rose ][5555] . Over the next ten thousand years, the glaciers slipped away, gouging out basins from the earth. The c...