{
  "id": 16755252,
  "title": "Two Thousand Years Ago, a New Ice Age Began—but Human-Caused Climate Change Recently Reversed It, According to New Research",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/two-thousand-years-ago-a-new-ice-age-began-but-human-caused-climate",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-27T14:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Smithsonian",
    "slug": "smithsonian",
    "url": "https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/two-thousand-years-ago-a-new-ice-age-began-but-human-caused-climate-change-recently-reversed-it-according-to-a-new-study-180989746/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "All that's left of a gargantuan ice sheet that once covered nearly 30 percent of North America is a Delaware-size ice cap in Canada. Scientists have found that the ice cap began to expand around 2,000 years ago—a sign of a new ice age—but it started shrinking in the 1960s",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "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."
}