Measurements from stations around the world show that #methane levels have increased significantly since the early 2000s.
According to the report, the main reason is that more methane has been released from wetland areas such as #bogs, shallow #wells , #ponds, and #lakes in tropical regions.
And as it gets warmer, more is released.
“The temperature change leads to increased microbiological activity,” researcher Stephen Matthew Platt says. He is one of the researchers behind the new study.
Processes like #decomposition in wetlands happen faster when it gets warmer.
Another reason for the increase in methane emissions is that #permafrost has begun to #thaw in the north.
“When the permafrost thaws, it also leads to more water on the surface, and this development is underway,” explains Platt.
@Pollinators Before he died, my friend / colleague Toby Hemenway wrote this wonderful story about #beavers (we published it in the magazine, too).
"As Bill Mollison has observed, everything gardens. The beaver, however, goes far beyond simple #gardening to feats of complex #ecosystem transformation. Beaver don’t merely build dams that create #ponds. They control the flow of vast amounts of energy and material. With tough incisors and instinct, beavers create a shifting mosaic of moist and dry meadows, wet forests, #marshes, #bogs, streams, and open water that change the climate, nutrient flow, vegetation, wildlife, #hydrology, and even #geology of entire #watersheds." https://tobyhemenway.com/150-the-watershed-wisdom-of-the-beaver/
Be the beavers you wish to see in the world.
"#Permaculture instructor #AndrewMillison visits #beaver dams talks about how beavers are the worlds greatest #ecosystem engineers. He journeys to different permaculture sites in Oregon to see how these sites are actually mimicking the hydrologic and ecosystem effects of the beavers, as well as shows never-before-seen footage from large scale water harvesting projects in Rajasthan, India, and breaks down some simple take-away points for how we can design our landscapes to function for humans and the #ecology. We can step into our role as a beneficial #keystone species and heal the planet with #ponds!" https://youtu.be/43bmtqKDhBE
In regard to the #ClimateCrisis, IMO, there is no shortage of solutions for many myriad, curiously connected, problems (not to mention #overshoot#predicaments). Where we're slacking, it seems, is deployment of them (at least the scale of the Civilian Conservation Corps [1933 to '42], for example). Landscape rehabilitation, i.e. 'hands-on' application of long-practiced earth- & water-work techniques, used by humans over 1000s of years; #CheckDams / pits / channels / #acequias / #ponds; mimicking beavers, essentially. Slowing water down, spreading it out, & sinking it in, as the #permaculture aphorism goes. The gathering together of actual human beings to lay hands on and apply simple tools to generate radical regenerative shifts in the regional #watershed#ecology & #hydrology (as well as health & trade) is being modeled for the world to see, in various locales. It's one thing to watch a video. To make it happen everywhere is both necessary AND possible. Start yesterday if not sooner.https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwIZ5tgj-b_R8F_TpYQRhkoQCNvx7evTm
First proper picture I've been able to get of the new water hawthorn (Aponogeton), aka Cape pondweed. Highly scented and can flower until November. It can be almost evergreen in a mild winter.