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lupagreenwolf) wrote2010-11-28 03:39 pm
lupagreenwolf) wrote2010-11-28 03:39 pm
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Repopulating Siberia with ice age animals
This is pretty damned cool.
Herbivores keep wild grass short and healthy, sending up fresh shoots through the summer and autumn. Their manure gives crucial nourishment. In winter, the animals trample and flatten the snow that otherwise would insulate the ground from the cold air. That helps prevent the frozen ground, or permafrost, from thawing and releasing powerful greenhouse gases. Grass also reflects more sunlight than forests, a further damper to global warming.
This is pretty damned cool.
Herbivores keep wild grass short and healthy, sending up fresh shoots through the summer and autumn. Their manure gives crucial nourishment. In winter, the animals trample and flatten the snow that otherwise would insulate the ground from the cold air. That helps prevent the frozen ground, or permafrost, from thawing and releasing powerful greenhouse gases. Grass also reflects more sunlight than forests, a further damper to global warming.
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I have seen you around in various communities and reading lists of friends, and many of your writings have been helpful & inspirational to me. Today I had a lapse in my social anxiousness combine with remembering that I keep meaning to add your journal, so here I am! You may have seen me posting over at Wildspeak or back on LJ in communities/common friends' lists as either Scatteredshells or
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