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Little Ice Age

Imagen de satélite de los Himalayas. Los picos más altos se ven al fondo con cobertura glacial mientras que al frente se observa el inicio de un valle sin glaciares.
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Los Himalayas atraviesan por una “excepcional” pérdida de masa glaciar

Rishika Pardikar, Science Writer by Rishika Pardikar 20 July 202220 July 2022

Los Himalayas han perdido 40% de su masa glaciar desde la Pequeña Edad de Hielo. El Este de Nepal y Bután han sufrido pérdidas de forma más acelerada.

Satellite image of the Himalayas
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Himalayas Are Experiencing an “Exceptional” Loss of Glacial Mass

Rishika Pardikar, Science Writer by Rishika Pardikar 10 February 202220 July 2022

The Himalayas have lost 40% of their glacial mass since the Little Ice Age. East Nepal and Bhutan have experienced the most rapid losses.

Painting of a winter landscape in Europe circa 1608 by Hendrick Avercamp
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The Little Ice Age Wasn’t Global, but Current Climate Change Is

Javier Barbuzano, Science Writer by Javier Barbuzano 24 July 20197 February 2022

None of the cold and warm epochs from the past 2,000 years were global events, but the current period of climate change is more intense and is happening simultaneously across the entire planet.

A series of petroglyphs of animal, human, and plant images on a cliff wall
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European Contact with the Americas May Have Triggered Global Cooling

Mary Caperton Morton, Science Writer by Mary Caperton Morton 8 April 20199 September 2024

The loss of precontact agricultural communities to genocide and disease may have led to massive reforestation, a dip in carbon dioxide, and one of the coldest snaps of the Little Ice Age.

The open ocean
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Scientists Discover Evidence of Long “Ocean Memory”

Jenessa Duncombe, Staff Writer by Jenessa Duncombe 7 February 201930 March 2023

Measurements from a 19th century scientific expedition have revealed that the deep Pacific waters are cooling from lower global temperatures centuries ago.

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