Laurentide ice sheet

LONG-STANDING AS­SUMP­TIONS con­cerning the suc­ces­sion of events that led to the re­treat of the glac­iers in the last Ice Age and the major dis­tur­bances in the plan­et’s at­mos­phere that fol­lowed have been turned on their head. Most sci­en­tists be­lieve that the chain of events started in the North At­lantic Ocean, which then af­fected the Pa­cific Ocean. [Read more] “alaska’s melting glaciers could lead to major disturbances in climate”