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Dire wolf scientists should know “de-extinction” is a fool’s errand (ap)
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.

ap: Climate change will force the world to play a grim game — adapt, move, or die
Let's play a game, the climate-change game that every living thing on Earth has no choice but to play, starting ... now.

ap: Wildlife crossings work for both drivers and animals
In this country, according to Federal Highway Administration estimates, 1-2 million motor vehicles crash into large animals such as deer each year. “These wildlife-vehicle collisions cause approximately 200 human deaths,...

ap: When immortal trees die, what will survive climate change?
Fueled by huge numbers of beetle-killed dead trees, mega-fires consumed normally fire-resistant mature pines and giant sequoias.

ap: Wildfire mitigation shouldn’t mean the death of our trees
I found that this once intact and healthy wildlife habitat had been reduced to “defensible space” in the name of wildfire mitigation.

Guest Commentary: Normal isn’t normal anymore
Even with zero emissions, getting back to what we might consider “normal” -- the pre-industrial levels of 280 ppm — is “sort of a 10,000-year proposition.”