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Melting Glaciers will produce new salmon habitat, study suggests
December 14, 2021 midnight

Melting Glaciers will produce new salmon habitat, study suggests

In a new study involving researchers from the University of Montana’s Flathead Lake Biological Station, scientists discovered warming trends may offer one silver lining to climate change, if only for a while: the retreat of glaciers in the Pacific mountains of western North America potentially could produce more than 6,000 kilometers of new Pacific salmon habitat by the year 2100.