Climate Change

Mar 24, 2024
Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based biotechnology company, says it has developed the technology necessary to bring the woolly mammoth back from extinction. NBC News’ Morgan Chesky reports on the opportunities this new technology could bring as well as the concerns some scientists are raising.

 

Jun 8, 2022

In the quest to understand how evolution basically built the woolly mammoth, we may have found the blueprints for building them ourselves. Thanks to Julio Lacerda (  / juliotheartist  ),Roman Uchytel (https://prehistoric-fauna.com), and Dmitry Bogdanov for the mammoth art featured in this episode!

There’s a longer video on the science and techniques for bringing back extinct species here.

Okay, I think I’ve covered all my mammoth info here. It is part of the bigger picture of rewilding to enhance carbon capture. A necessary step in solving the current climate crisis -but also in making a healthier environment all around.

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Here is Mossy Earth – which leads extensive efforts in rewilding (see all their videos here) – on rewilding Iceland and why it’s important:

Aug 4, 2022

We are helping reforest Iceland with our latest rewilding project! This is a special place to plant trees as they help fight against desertification and help with the much-needed habitat creation.

 

I looked for a follow-up video because I read a story on how the entire “planting trees movement” is not based in science and many of the areas where thousands of trees were planted have resulted in very little long term growth – most trees die in the first few months from neglect, poor soil and climate issues.

These folks seem to be doing it right – here’s an update on the tree planting, a year and a half later:

Dec 18, 2023

We’ve decided to broadened our Icelandic projects to include restoring deserts and wetlands and in this video we lay down the plan for the coming years.

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That’s enough for today. I’ve gotten that entire mammoth thing out of my system (ok, not really, but unless one is born, I think we’ve covered the topic, LOL). Now I can move forward on more rewilding success stories, some cool EV and battery stories and on and on. Plenty of good news coming out of the climate solution community to share.

Climate Scientist Michael E Mann & historian Timothy D Snyder:
Doomerism is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.
It is how authoritarians win. Let’s try to fight the doom

This is a doom and gloom (and election) free thread.

Post any good climate news you have in the comments and I’ll check it out.

They have a plethora of free video excerpts and interviews with folks who have moved to AMP grazing or are thinking of it, and their research so far, here:  Roots So Deep videos

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And for those of you who watched Kiss The Ground (still available on Netflix) and found it thoughtful, they have a follow-up coming soon:

It has some limited showings, but I suspect it will have a streaming home soon.

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And finally, I LOVE everything about this project. And it can be replicated anywhere.

That’s my quick hit for today. Busy ahead, I’ll check in when I can.

Despair only limits future action – Simon Clark

This is a doom and gloom free thread. Share any climate solution stories you have encountered, and I’ll bookmark them for future posts.