Beavers And Climate Change

WFMY News 2 ^ | December 22, 2014

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Researchers at EurekAlert say that our efforts to protect the beaver from extinction have had eco-unfriendly side effects. Beaver’s numbers have rebounded thanks to efforts across the globe to protect them. The new research states that as their numbers rise they are contributing to climate change.

Beavers create dams in shallow ponds, which then can host increasing levels of carbon as biological material accumulates on the pond floor. This accumulation results in methane, a greenhouse gas that does not dissolve in the pond, but instead enters the atmosphere. The study shows that today beaver ponds release 200 times more methane than they did in 1900, a time period when hunting threatened the animal’s existence.

The latest study points to beavers being contributors to climate change while the older study shows that beavers are ‘squirreling away our carbon log by log.’

It will take more time and more research to figure out the beaver’s true role in our ecosystem.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[Doomonyou]

stop.

[Fungi]

Nonsense.

[Night Hides Not]

Squirreling beavers? Oh my!!!

[Vendome]

[Celtic Conservative]

Wow, so many ways to go with this, none of them clean...

CC

[Vendome]

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[TheRightGuy]

The study shows that today beaver ponds release 200 times more methane than they did in 1900

i am not EVEN gonna go there ... but the jokes do, indeed, write themselves

[Vendome]

[Vendome]

[PROCON]

Explains their crappy season...

[Raycpa]

We must all come together to protect the beavers.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[C210N]

[spawn44]

Come on, everyone knows breasts have more to do with GLOBEAL WARMING.

[SandRat]

Beaver FARTS,YUCK!

[jyro]

Don’t screw around with mother nature. Unintended consequences can do more damage than if the natural processes were left alone.