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Welcome to the Kotky Ride Home for Friday, August 28th, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird.

How the Anthropocene has had a bigger impact on North America than the last Ice Age.

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Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

New research recently presented at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America

indicates that humans have changed North American landscapes more than happened at the end

of the most recent ice age.

And we're not just talking about like humans throughout human history,

just in the last 250 years of human history.

250 years of humans on this continent have altered the land more than the Pleistocene Epic. The Placetocene

Epic began two and a half million years ago and ended just under 12,000 years ago. It was what we

generally think of as the Ice Age and the end of it is the last time that glaciers covered huge

swaths of the planet. As it ended, the ecosystem changed drastically with grasslands and forests submerging.

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