Salt may have pushed us further into Snowball Earth 700 million years ago - Peer2Peer

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

Mar 06, 2026

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.

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-salt-snowball-earth-million-years.html

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