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A new report highlights more than 400 allegations against mining companies operating in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, home to large deposits of minerals used in low-carbon technologies.

   MOSCOW, July 12, 2022 (BSS/AFP) - Heavy rainfall has flooded several  villages in Yakutia, in Russia's Far East region, authorities

Heavy rains have flooded several villages in Yakutia in Russia's Far East region, authorities said on Tuesday.

Experts discovered the animals - two adults, two juveniles and an infant - at a quarry near Swindon. The site will feature in Attenborough And The Mammoth Graveyard on BBC1 on December 30.

An illustration of the ancient lineage of steppe mammoths, which led to the wooly mammoths that roamed the Arctic (Credit: Beth Zaiken/Center For Palaeogenetics) A team of Swedish scientists has successfully extracted and reconstructed the worlds oldest DNA from the tooth of a Siberian mammoth, which roamed Earth over a million years ago. Also known as deoxyribonucleic acid, the all-important molecule — which contains the genetic instructions for the development and function of living things...

By Kelly MacnamaraAgence France-Presse PARIS — Teeth from mammoths buried in the Siberian permafrost for more than a million years have yielded the world's oldest DNA ever sequenced, according to a recently published study, shining the genetic searchlight into the deep past. Researchers said the three specimens, one roughly 800,000 years old and two over a million years old,

Close A mammoth tooth discovered from the Siberian permafrost results in the oldest DNA yet uncovered and gives insight into the evolution of the massive beasts. Genetic substance removed from a 1.2-million-year-old mammoth tooth is the recent record holder for the worlds most ancient DNA. Scientists from Sweden, in the Centre for Palaeogenetics, have examined the DNA and decided that it arrived from an earlier unknown kind of mammoth that has now been named the Krestovka mammoth. (Photo : Magd...

T he wooly mammoth ( Mammuthus primigenius) is an iconic animal, like the saber tooth tiger or dire wolf, from a time in human history when our position at the top of the global food chain was decidedly not assured (and being somethings prey was not limited to just other humans). Perhaps this is a reason that resurrection of mammoths using Jurassic Park-like technology has some currency and appeal ( but see How to Clone a Mammoth for reasons why this may not be such a good idea). Perhaps para...

The First Example of Hybrid Speciation in Ancient DNA The new study has also amplified the ability for researchers to track the evolutionary process of speciation – the formation of new and distinct species. A Nature press release states that this process generally occurs “over time periods that are thought to be beyond the limits of DNA research.” A tusk from a woolly mammoth discovered in a creek bed on Wrangel Island in 2017. (Credit: Love Dalén) Nonetheless, the scientists’ stu...

Scientists sequenced DNA from the teeth of mammoths discovered in Siberia in the 1970s.