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Scientists added a new shade to a graphical representation of global temperature change to keep up with our warming world.

A Soviet zoologist with a passion for long-extinct mammals set out to reinvigorate the landscape of the Caucasus in the 20th Century. Azerbaijan still bears the scars of his ambition.