I’m republishing a Mongabay story that powerfully informs the coastal life my wife and I chose in downeast Maine two years ago, describing a nature-based path to resilience in the tough situation facing coastal communities anywhere given rising seas and shifting storm patterns in a human-jogged climate.
The numerous rivers throughout the subarctic have been dammed and no longer flow naturally
by the way the largest amount of freshwater on this planet is in the subarctic. This water used to be flowing in the many major rivers there however hydro dams have killed many of these rivers, turning them into sea-size basins. This quantity of water now imprisoned in the most sensitive of regions to any human impacts is directly affecting water vapor, humidity levels and certainly localized weather patterns have changed due to these dams.
Nature based solution LET THESE CRITICALLY LOCATED RIVERS FLOW AGAIN FREELY!!!
The numerous rivers throughout the subarctic have been dammed and no longer flow naturally
by the way the largest amount of freshwater on this planet is in the subarctic. This water used to be flowing in the many major rivers there however hydro dams have killed many of these rivers, turning them into sea-size basins. This quantity of water now imprisoned in the most sensitive of regions to any human impacts is directly affecting water vapor, humidity levels and certainly localized weather patterns have changed due to these dams.
Nature based solution LET THESE CRITICALLY LOCATED RIVERS FLOW AGAIN FREELY!!!