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    SIBERIA’S MAMMOTH SCHEME TO COOL THE PLANET AND SAVE US ALL

    Nov 08, 2021 4 minutes
    By Steven MacKenzie

    In the far north-east of Russia – inside the Arctic Circle, further east than Japan – a mini-caravan of camels are adapting to their first Siberian winter. It’s -20C.

    Do camels like the snow?

    “I am not sure any animals really like the snow, but camels do well,” says Nikita Zimov. “We will be able to tell better next year. But they have extremely good fur so they should be good.”

    Camels are just one of the unexpected animals found in Pleistocene Park. There are bison, yak, cows, goats and sheep.

    The park was started by Nikita’s scientist father Sergey. In 1984 he was stationed in remote Siberia to study the ecology. When the Soviet Union disintegrated,

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