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Russian Scientists Are Trying to Revive Wooly Mammoths to Halt Siberia’s Warming Crisis

The prehistoric animals could diffuse the Arctic’s ticking carbon bomb

On a warm afternoon in the northeastern Siberian region of Yakutia, farther north than most humans care to live, Sergey Zimov stood below an eroding mudbank along the Kolyma River. He reached down by…

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Future Human is a science publication from Medium about the survival of our species. It is run by the OneZero editorial team, which also publishes stories about major forces in technology through its namesake publication and stories about gadgets on Debugger.

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Marcello Rossi

Freelance writer. My works appeared in National Geographic, The Economist, The Guardian, BBC, Al Jazeera, Nature, Smithsonian, Reuters, among many others.