Salt may have pushed us further into Snowball Earth 700 million years ago

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Mar 6, 2026, 4:00 pm98 ptsTrending
Our planet plunged into one of the most dramatic climate states in its long history, approximately 720–635 million years ago. During a period geologists call Snowball Earth, ice sheets crept from the poles all the way to the tropics, covering the oceans and continents in a nearly global freeze.

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