The beaver has been Canada's national animal since 1975. The beaver may be an unlikely agent of climate change, but the cuddly-looking creatures are transforming the Arctic landscape in a way that could be exacerbating global warming, a new study has suggested.
In the past few years, scientists have spotted beavers in the Alaskan tundra where they've previously never been seen before — and the animals have been enjoying a dam-building boom in their new neighborhood, according to the study of high-resolution satellite imagery published in the journal Environmental Research Letters Monday.
"It's possible to see them and spot them in the imagery. It's also possible to see the development of lakes. They had a distinctive signal," said Nitze.Several different factors explain why the beavers have occupied a region they wouldn't normally call home, said Nitze. One is climate change, which is altering the typically treeless tundra.
Because the lakes the beavers create contain water that is warmer than the surrounding soil, the new bodies of water accelerate the permafrost thawing. The beavers also seemed to intuitively target drained lake basins, turbocharging the impact they had on the landscape and the permafrost.
Just let the beavers beave.
Beavers are planning to protest on Parliament Hill today! 🇨🇦Happy Canada Day!🇨🇦
Who cares about beavers
Mother nature works in strange ways
BEAVERS ARE RACIST
Oh Canada 🇨🇦 we love our beaver
So is this guy! DirtyButts TrudeauCorruption
It's all the beavers fault! AbolishtheBeavers
I'm glad CTVnews has switched to parody instead of reporting real news....they're way more effective at parody than news
When did become a parody account?
What happened to the murder hornets? Shark attacks, ozone holes? Global warmingcoolingclimatechange? Fires in the amazon? We must invade Afghanistan, iraq Syria, yemen, sudan, ukraine rtc etc Lololol
Ok shoot the beavers... oh ya that’s wrong and there are no guns. So do we trap them and let them slowly drown? Or do we say fuck it it’s nature doing its thing?
Of all the stupid stories
Maybe Greta Thunberg should fly across the planet and drive around in a large bus to yell at them about ruining her childhood. And maybe we should pay more taxes, because that will definitely help the planet.
Think better or more .
Take them off the nickel in protest. I thot Justin Beaver lived outside of Cambridge?
Interesting
Last year in Alberta there were a lot of forest fires They blamed in on climate change . This year a lot of rain and no forest fires They are blaming it on climate change What a farce
Beaver tax?.....anyone?
Tax them quick!
Did pay your taxes up there?
call in the NORTH WEST MOUNTED POLICE
Only our brilliant media could actually blame a beaver for their role in climate change. It’s called nature ctvnews
COULD BE THEY DONT LIKE LEFT WING IDIOTS ...
Horse shit!!! Beavers are native to the artic. You are just noticing because of the lack of trapping because its politically incorrect to wear or harvest fur now because of activism.
You guys are a joke !!
Oh so it’s the BEAVERS’ fault. What a relief. I was beginning to think humans might have had something to do with climate change...
Omgg
Ah...CTV joke of the day. Where would we be without our dumbass news stories. I used to actually read them. Now the heading is enough.
So beavers are hot?
So, is Greta going to advocate exterminating beavers?
As if on queue, the usual army of climate change denying trolls fills the comment section on this story. A bit surprised that not one of them tried to make a joke about 'the beaver tax' yet... But, to be fair, that group isn't really known for putting much thought into anything.
AkhilMooken looks like your alligator friend is moving on...see you later alligator...
Where oh where do you find these ridiculous stories. What is wrong are your brains on some sort of distorted steroids. So many thinks going on on Canada to suggest that we are really in a bad way and you pick on Beavers. You have all gone completely utterly mad.
right up there with cow farts
How ..is this more promotion of this scam Climate Change Catastrophe .....I believe this is more CTV ..MSM BULLSHIT !
Roasted beaver tail is delicious. Wolves and polar bears will be happy too.
😳🤔😱
That's because May and her little band of earth scorchers are taking away all their forests in BC for Bio Mass
This is going to start gnawing away at me...
Then just Tax the beaver, BT = Beaver Tax, take it out of their hide if they don't pay!
Hey look. Nature is causing climate change. I guess if you blame everything, you gotta be right at least once.
No one wants to work down south, so beavers going where hard work ethic may survive.
Where did climate change go?
Those dam beavers!
Natural part of the cycle, permafrost will thaw and eventually freeze again during the next age. Been happening since time began and will continue long after we're gone
Stop the beavers!!!!!!!!!!!
Beaver tax inbound
Oh no....kill all the beavers. How dare they be alive and allowed to chew things,
Here comes a Beaver Tax.... like it isn’t already way too pricey 😂👍🏼😉
Clown media says DefundBeavers
Oh ffs. Give me a beer and shut up
Clearly they need to be canceled.
They're just rodents anyway
Death to all beavers then. Like our oil and gas industry... they must die for the planet.
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