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Human migration
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Sea Ice May Have Facilitated the Arrival of North America’s First People 24,000 Years Ago
The arrival of humans in North America is a contentious topic in archaeology. Traditionally, the prevailing theory suggests that people migrated through an ice-free corridor that opened between ice sheets around 13,000 years ago.
Rising Temperatures Due to Climate Change Could Render Some Areas Uninhabitable for Humans
New interdisciplinary research warns that a global temperature rise of 1 degree Celsius or more above current levels could result in billions of people annually facing extreme heat and humidity that surpasses their natural cooling capacity. These findings underscore the escalating risks to human health worldwide as the planet approaches a warming threshold beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.