Bring back the mammoth to fight global warming? It's not as crazy as it sounds.

Bring back the mammoth to fight global warming? It's not as crazy as it sounds | Aeon Videos

In the barren reaches of Arctic Siberia, Sergey and Nikita Zimov, a Russian father-and-son team of scientists, are working on geoengineering measures that sound as if they're ripped from the pages of a Michael Crichton novel: reintroduce a massive, bygone ecosystem to the Eurasian steppe, including mammoths developed from elephant-mammoth DNA hybrids.

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