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When did the last ice age end?

We are still in it.

Geographers define the ice age as a stage in the geological history of the Earth, during which "ice caps" - glaciers - are present at its poles. Today's climate is an "interglacial". But this does not mean "between ice ages". The term is used to describe a stage within an ice age when, due to warming, the ice is receding.

"Our" interglacial began 10 years ago - during what is commonly considered the fourth ice age. When it ends, one can only guess: versions about the duration of the interglacial allow a gap from 000 to 12 years (without correction for human technogenic activity).

The reasons for these fluctuations are not entirely clear. Possible factors include both the position in which the land is located and the composition of the atmosphere, as well as a change in the Earth's orbit around the Sun. And possibly the Sun's own orbit inside the Galaxy.

During the so-called Little Ice Age, which began around 1500 and lasted 300 years, the average annual temperature in Northern Europe fell by one degree Celsius. The drop in temperature coincided with a period of extremely low solar activity, although the extent to which these two factors are related is still the subject of scientific discussion.

During the Little Ice Age, the Arctic ice sheet extended so far south that we know of six separate occasions when the Eskimos reached Scotland in their kayak boats, and the Orkney Islanders had to chase completely bewildered polar bears from their homes.

Recent research at Utrecht University links the Little Ice Age to the Black Death.

According to Dutch scientists, the catastrophic population decline in Europe during the epidemic led to the fact that the deserted farmlands were gradually overgrown with forests. And this, in turn, led to a significant decrease in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and caused a decrease in average annual temperatures - a kind of "anti-greenhouse effect".

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