{
  "id": 16085512,
  "title": "A New Ice Age Was Beginning. Then Humans Started Burning Fossil Fuels",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/a-new-ice-age-was-beginning-then-humans-started-burning-fossil-fuels-16085512",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-22T18:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Wired Science",
    "slug": "wired-science",
    "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/ice-age-beginning-then-humans-started-burning-fossil-fuels/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}