Earth is warmer today than it has been for most of the last 11,300 years, new research has shown.
Scientists studied fossils recovered from 73 sites around the world to track global climate to the end of the last Ice Age.
For 70% to 80% of this period, which dates back to the start of the holocene era we now live, temperatures were cooler than now.
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