The last woolly mammoths survived on a remote island till 4000 years ago, wracked for millennia by genetic disorders. Here's my story on what they can tell us about saving endangered species today. Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/science/mammoth-genes-wrangel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.200.-bER.eni-GLQYwkBz&smid=url-share
I wrote about people in Ethiopia who lived through a climate disaster 74,000 years ago, thanks to resilience and technological versatility. Some scientists think that they are the key to understanding how modern humans finally expanded out of Africa and survived on other continents permanently. Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/science/early-humans-arrowheads-volcano.html?ugrp=m&unlocked_article_code=1.eE0.iVZQ.hPHzM5P2M0Sx&smid=url-share
A gallery of fireflies.
Florida surgeon general altered key findings in study on Covid-19 vaccine safety https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/24/florida-surgeon-general-covid-vaccine-00093510?cid=post
“We are now at ‘code red’ on planet Earth. Humanity is unequivocally facing a climate emergency.” https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/72/12/1149/6764747
#Climate activist Bill McKibben argued that Donald Trump’s arrest, which dominated headlines the day the Nature study came out, was far less remarkable as news goes. “Him ending up in trouble for tax evasion to cover up an affair with a porn star seems unlikely only in its details,” McKibben wrote, while the Antarctic story was “one of the most important installments in the most important saga of our time, the rapid decline of the planet’s physical health.”
https://fair.org/home/projected-collapse-of-crucial-antarctic-current-met-with-media-silence/
Evolutionary Ecologist. Opinions may be strong and are strictly my own.