We are changing Earth's climate with terrifying speed. In the past, natural forces provoked slower climate changes. We now know that they were still big and fast enough to shape the fates of past ...

During the Little Ice Age, which spanned roughly the 14th to 19th centuries, Indigenous and settler societies had to adapt to the cooling Lake Ontario environment. As we again face a changing climate, ...

Thousands of people walking and playing across the frozen River Thames. Soldiers on horseback capturing ships stuck in the ice. Indigenous populations using snowshoes to outfox English interlopers.

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