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This undated photo provided by Colossal Biosciences shows two pups that were genetically engineered with similarities to the extinct dire wolf.

Dire wolf scientists should know 鈥渄e-extinction鈥� is a fool鈥檚 errand (抖阴ap)

May 6, 2025 at 10:19 a.m.

To breathless media coverage, a company called Colossal Biosciences now claims to have produced three genetically engineered pups of the long-extinct dire wolf. Scientific criticism followed fast.

A village woman gives water to Sunil Kumar Naik, an ambulance driver, to quench his thirst during a heat wave, on the way to a hospital, near a village in Banpur in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Saturday, June 17, 2023. The last 12 months were the hottest Earth has ever recorded, according to a new report Thursday, Nov. 9, by Climate Central, a nonprofit science research group. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)

抖阴ap: Climate change will force the world to play a grim game — adapt, move, or die

April 10, 2024 at 5:01 a.m.

Let's play a game, the climate-change game that every living thing on Earth has no choice but to play, starting ... now.

The site of a new wildlife underpass on Interstate 25 near the County Line Road exit 163 in Monument is pictured on Nov. 16, 2021. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

抖阴ap: Wildlife crossings work for both drivers and animals

March 28, 2023 at 5:38 a.m.

In this country, according to Federal Highway Administration estimates, 1-2 million motor vehicles crash into large animals such as deer each year. 鈥淭hese wildlife-vehicle collisions cause approximately 200 human deaths,...

抖阴ap: When immortal trees die, what will survive climate change?

July 10, 2021 at 6:05 a.m.

Fueled by huge numbers of beetle-killed dead trees, mega-fires consumed normally fire-resistant mature pines and giant sequoias.

TOPSHOT - Dee Perez comforts Michael Reynolds in the ruins of his home destroyed in the Almeda Fire in Talent, Oregon, September 15, 2020. - Infernos across California, Oregon and Washington state have burned more than five million acres (two million hectares) this year, killed dozens of people and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

抖阴ap: Wildfire mitigation shouldn’t mean the death of our trees

May 18, 2021 at 12:22 p.m.

I found that this once intact and healthy wildlife habitat had been reduced to 鈥渄efensible space鈥� in the name of wildfire mitigation.

Guest Commentary: Normal isn鈥檛 normal anymore

June 15, 2018 at 12:23 p.m.

Even with zero emissions, getting back to what we might consider 鈥渘ormal鈥� -- the pre-industrial levels of 280 ppm 鈥� is 鈥渟ort of a 10,000-year proposition.鈥�

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