An emaciated mammoth is struggling for life as rain and sleet fall around it. It has been searching for food for a long time, and now finds itself out in the open, in surroundings that have changed radically over a short period of time. What used to be a freezing-cold dry steppe with an easily accessible buffet of grass and herbs has changed into a swampy snowscape.
As the starving mammoth awaits its fate, it cannot know that the days of all mammoths are numbered. What remains of its group has migrated far to find food, but there is too little to be found, and soon they will all end up in the same state. A previously diverse landscape has changed completely as rising temperatues have altered the ecosystem, making the Arctic a pale shadow of its former self. The high-protein plants on which the mammoths used to feast
