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"textContent": "submitted by throws_lemy to earthscience\n15 points | 0 comments\nhttps://phys.org/news/2026-03-salt-snowball-earth-million-years.html\n\n> 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.",
"title": "Salt may have pushed us further into Snowball Earth 700 million years ago"
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