Anonymous ID: 7d3679 June 30, 2020, 7:51 a.m. No.9799495   🗄️.is 🔗kun

KEK Climate Beavers are on the march

 

https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2020/06/30/Gnawing-beavers-could-accelerate-thawing-of-Arctic-permafrost/2821593520775/?ur3=1

 

"Of course, we knew that the beavers there had spread substantially over the last few decades," said Nitze. "But we never would have dreamed they would seize the opportunity so intensively."

In a plot measuring 38 square miles, near the town of Kotzebue, satellite images confirmed the creation of an average of five new beaver dams per year between 2002 and 2019 – a 5,000 percent increase in less than two decades. Scientists documented similar dam construction rates across the entire northern Baldwin Peninsula.

"We're seeing exponential growth there. The number of these structures doubles roughly every four years," Nitze said.