We should rename it mammoth remembrance day for the sad demise of the mammoths that the "indigenous" immigrants from the old country killed off. Remember the victims!
Nah. We killed them off in the old country too. But they've not been forgotten. Get prepared for Mammoths II, the Mammoths Strike Back. (Against global warming, that is.)
Glimpse: How An Army of Resurrected Mammoths Could Curb Global WarmingRising global temperatures (a product of a receding ice age) and human activity rapidly drove down the populations of mammoths, triggering a domino effect that transformed the Siberian landscape. Trees, bushes, and shrubs proliferated in the mammoths’ absence, choking out the grasses that once sustained life there. As a result, the permafrost slowly began to thaw, releasing potent greenhouse gases that sped up global warming.
Now, 14,000 years later, scientists are faced with record-breaking global temperatures of humans’ own doing. And they’re realizing how valuable that ice age ecosystem was, and that we may be able to bring it back.
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