Nature's geoengineers give a dam about climate change — Conservation Northwest

Down-to-earth climatologist Lara Hansen, focuses her work on adaptation and helping people find solutions that help ecosystems and wildlife adapt to a changing climate. According to Lara, encouraging beaver mounds has turned out to be a part of quite a few plans in the Puget Sound these days.

Busy beavers change the landscape to help innumerable species of plants and animals that need wet to survive.

Flashback: 4% of Global Warming Due to Dams, Says New Research | International Rivers

Large dams may be one of the single most important contributors to global warming, releasing 104 million metric tonnes of methane each year. This estimate was recently published in a peer-reviewed journal by Ivan Lima and colleagues from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE).