"Our new study shows that a wetland created by beaver damming can store carbon at rates up to ten times higher than an equivalent stretch of river and floodplain without beavers"

#Beavers #Wetlands #Ecology #Biodiversity

Beavers can turn streams into carbon stores – we measured how much
theconversation.com/beavers-ca…

Beavers can turn streams into carbon stores – we measured how much

As beavers reshape rivers, wetlands become a natural storage system for carbon.

^{The Conversation}

"And it affected an almost entirely civilian population, that will be paying the price for decades to come. If we’re going to do this we should at least have to look at it."

#Trump #Iran #war #environment #ecology #ChemicalWarfare
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"U.S./Israeli force mounted another series of strikes, these on oil storage sites across the vast city of Tehran. The effect was astonishing—a cloud of truly toxic smoke—and I think it needs more notice than it’s been getting, even amidst all the other horrors of this war. This was in essence chemical warfare, even if the chemicals were the (easily anticipated) result of 'normal' bombs."

~ Bill McKibben

#Trump #Iran #war #environment #ecology #ChemicalWarfare
/13

billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-…

A dark and killing cloud over Tehran

And over a shamed America

^{Bill McKibben (The Crucial Years)}