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Deep Dive: Ice sheet expansion may have started 2,000 years ago, but we canceled that

Ran in the 1:05 PM edition of LivePulse, Saturday, October 24, 2026
Original reporting: Ars Technica Space · Jacek Krywko, 2026-10-24

Barnes Ice Cap sits on the central plateau of Baffin Island, in the Canadian Arctic. It is the last surviving fragment of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, the largest of the Pleistocene ice sheets, which at its peak buried most of Canada under two miles of ice and locked away around 80 meters of sea level.

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