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A University of Washington study offers new insights into the end of the last Snowball Earth event, explaining how melting ...

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Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are 'Snowball Earth' events that happened hundreds of millions of years ago, when almost the entire planet was encased in ice up to 0.