{"id":1684,"date":"2015-01-07T14:30:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T19:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2015-01-07T14:30:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T19:30:53","slug":"the-latest-climate-threat-beavers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/01\/the-latest-climate-threat-beavers\/","title":{"rendered":"The latest climate threat: Beavers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Yahoo News<\/em> posted a story yesterday about one of the newest threats to climate change in the US&#8211;beavers!\u00a0 The critters have been making a comeback across the country, building dams which back up water into ponds.\u00a0 The ponds are great for improving water storage and providing habitat for a variety of other animals, but also trap silt and organic matter.\u00a0 The organic matter decomposes on the bottom of the pond under anaerobic conditions, creating methane.\u00a0 It is estimated that the amount of methane produced by beavers has doubled since 1900.\u00a0 You can read about the impacts of beaver expansion, particularly in the west, and their impacts on changing climate by clicking <a title=\"Beavers and methane\" href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/latest-climate-change-threat-beavers-202409157.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1686\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1686\" style=\"width: 417px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/Beaver_lodge_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1686\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/Beaver_lodge_1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"417\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/Beaver_lodge_1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/Beaver_lodge_1-205x138.jpg 205w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/Beaver_lodge_1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo News posted a story yesterday about one of the newest threats to climate change in the US&#8211;beavers!\u00a0 The critters have been making a comeback across the country, building dams which back up water into ponds.\u00a0 The ponds are great for improving water storage and providing habitat for a variety of other animals, but also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":1686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions\/1687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}