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Industrial Revolution began in 17th not 18th century, say academics | History

The Industrial Revolution began more than 100 years earlier than previously thought, with Britons already transitioning from agriculture to manufacturing in the 1600s, according to new research. Seventeenth-century England can be understood as the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, laying the foundations for the transition from a society based on agriculture and handicrafts to a […]

Antarctica’s ‘doomsday glacier’ began melting in mid-twentieth century: Study

West Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, commonly known as the “Doomsday Glacier” because of the potentially catastrophic effects it has been hypothesized, could collapse, scientists say, according to new research published Monday. It began to recede rapidly and earlier than I had previously known. new studyA paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences […]