The edge of the world

During our last ice age, twenty-five thousand years ago, a glacier covered much of the continent. Layered ice sheets stacked a mile downward. Twenty thousand years ago, temperatures rose. Over the next ten thousand years, the glaciers slipped away, gouging out basins from the earth. The cavities left behind filled with meltwater and sleet.  Back […]
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