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River otters have staged a remarkable comeback across North America’s Great Lakes after disappearing from many waterways by the 1970s. Reintroductions beginning in the 1980s, combined with wetland restoration and pollution controls under the 1972 US–Canada Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, have allowed breeding populations to recover across Ohio, New York, Ontario and beyond. Rewilding Magazine https://www.rewildingmag.com/the-river-otters-remarkable-comeback/
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Balcony solar is taking US state legislatures by storm. In more than half of states, Republican and Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation that would boost adoption of small plug-in solar panels that sit on apartment balconies and plug directly into household outlets. The simple technology is already in use in millions of households in Germany. Canary Media https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/balcony-solar-taking-state-legislatures-by-storm #ShareGoodNewsToo

Enjoy a full minute of beavers being released into the wild in Cornwall. These little fluffbutts are the first to swim in these waters in a very, very long time - the last official records of beavers in the wild in England are from the 1300s. BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2x9ndl4l9o
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@snippet @hicksy2 So, to be clear, the argument is that forest fires negate trees’ absorption?

@hicksy2 Where did you hear that?

Forests in the United States are storing more carbon than at any point in decades. New analysis finds gains are being driven by forest ageing, favourable climate trends and regrowth, outweighing losses from deforestation. From 2005 to 2022, forest age structure alone added about 89 million tonnes of carbon annually, highlighting the climate value of letting forests mature. PNAS https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2513588123
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