About 90,000 years ago, an ice sheet blocked the flow of rivers in northern Russia, leading to the formation of massive lakes. New computer models suggest that those frigid bodies of water significantly cooled the region in summer months. That change in the local climate, in turn, allowed the massive ice sheet to expand more quickly than if the lakes had never formed.
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