Big freeze set to return
Daily Star|February 26, 2024
SCIENTISTS have uncovered why Earth was plunged into an Ice Age - and warn we could be hurtling towards another one.
ANDREW JAMESON
Big freeze set to return

Australian researchers believe the planet's lowestever volcanic carbon emissions triggered its longest global freeze - which lasted 57million years.

It transformed the Earth into a snowball "from poles to equator" in a period before dinosaurs or even complex plant life existed.

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