By Melissa Segrest
Green Right Now
They started out as pets, perhaps living in little boys’ bedrooms, being shown off to friends and wrapping around arms. But then the Burmese pythons grew, and grew, and grew (about 7 feet in a year), and they weren’t so cute or easy to deal with any more.
So, trying to do the right thing, their owners gently released them into the wild, near the large, shallow “river of grass” that flows through much of south Florida, known as the Everglades.
Problem solved.
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Climate change presents opportunities to combat invasive species
By John DeFore
Green Right Now
If every crisis presents opportunities, the time is ripe for finding bright spots in climate change. Researchers at Princeton University appear to have found the potential for one: the opportunity to use the changes in temperature occurring today to combat changes in plant growth that have caused grief in the past.
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Tags: · cheet grass, Climate Change, invasive species, kudzu, leafy spurge
