During previous interglacial periods, when glaciers retreated, they left behind open land in their wakes.

在以往的间冰期中，当冰川消退时，它们在尾迹中留下了开阔的土地。

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Turns out that when glaciers are cold enough they don't move much.

结果表明，当冰川足够冷的时候，它们几乎就不动了。

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Higher air temperatures can increase surface melting, but warm ocean currents accelerate ice loss more when glaciers flow into the sea.

气温升高能够加速冰川表面的融化，但是当冰川漂移入海之后，温暖的洋流对冰雪消融发挥了更重要的推动作用。

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The latest discovery pushes the dawn of the Jomon era in Japan back 3, 500 years to a period when glaciers were rampant in much of the northern hemisphere.

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"We can say there were times during the warmer periods of the last 10, 000 years when glaciers have been comparable to what they are now, " he told the BBC News website.

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The 68-mile route to the fishing town of Ullapool is a relatively recent addition to a landscape forged in the Ice Age, when melting glaciers gouged its long, deep valleys and seawater-filled lochs and fjords.

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