The mammoth was basically done in by climate change. The last ones survived on Wrangel Island, north of Chukotka, until 3,700 years ago. According to Eveny mythology, mammoths scooped up dirt with their tusks to form the first dry land. — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
According to the U.N., more than 2.7 billion people will face severe water shortages by 2025. Many social scientists predict that the next big wars will be over water. Nevertheless, the average American family blissfully consumes 300 gallons a day,… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them would be in Russia,… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share
Nature got it right with the cranes. They have been around since the Eocene, which ended 34 million years ago. — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share
Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by the annual loss of… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share
Most of the Amazon basin is as flat as a pancake and laced with extravagantly meandering waterways. One school of thought holds that more… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share
Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in northern Alberta and Ontario… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share
Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long before we… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share
The mammoth was basically done in by climate change. The last ones survived on Wrangel Island, north of Chukotka, until 3,700 years ago. According… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share
The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet. — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share
In 1990, my wife and I were married in her village in southwestern Uganda. The festivities went on for three days, and all the… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share
As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to be an increasingly bigger… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share
In the '70s, Florida-style golf communities started to be built for America's baby-boomers who were doing well and taking up the game but couldn't… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share
Trump has got to be one of the most branded people on the planet. You can't get away from him. — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share
Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a moment, lasting… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share
'Ecological sensitivity' is not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Donald Trump. He doesn't even believe in global warming.… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share
The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops. — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share
