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Mammoth Dung is Going to Boost Global Warming

A trip into the Siberian tundra will remind you now of a visit at a cow farm. Because of the scent. But what you smell is not cow dung, but mammoth one: this is the syrupy mud, resulted from the thawing of the permafrost. Just another symptom of global warming: the prehistoric dung lifted from suspended animation. An...

20 September 2007
04:48 GMT

A Boom of Mammoth Bone Hunting, Spurred by Permafrost Thawing in the Russian Tundra

Thousands of years following their extinction, mammoths still help people earn a living. In the Siberian tundra, the frozen grassland high up in the Arctic Circle, the climbing temperature is thawing out the permafrost (the frozen soil) to show off the fossilized bones of prehistoric megafauna like mammoths, woolly r...

19 September 2007
06:39 GMT



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