global warming

Around 700 million years ago, Earth experienced an extreme ice age known as the Sturtian Glaciation, turning our planet into a vast, icy snowball. This period of deep freeze, marked by glaciers extending from the poles to the equator, has long puzzled scientists. Now, thanks to groundbreaking research led by Dr. Adriana Dutkiewicz and Professor Dietmar Muller from the University of Sydney, along with the EarthByte group, we may finally have the answers. Investigating Snowball Earth Dr Adriana Dutkiewicz was inspired during a field trip to the Flinders Ranges to find out how volcanic activity turned our blue dot into an ice-covered planet. The Australian geologists have used plate tectonic modelling to determine what most likely caused an extreme ice