"The mammoth was basically done in by climate……" — Alex Shoumatoff
"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."
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16 Quotes by Alex Shoumatoff
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Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in…
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Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten…
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There is a lot of interest among the descendants of Holocaust victims in getting back artworks that were looted by…
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The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met.…
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Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of…
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If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them…
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The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.
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As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to…
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The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the…
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According to the U.N., more than 2.7 billion people will face severe water shortages by 2025. Many social scientists predict…
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The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet.
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Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by…
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