Beavers munching their way into Northern Alaska: Wildlife experts tell the Anchorage Daily News that, as global warming increases the spread of trees into what had been bare tundra in recent years, beavers have expanded their natural habitat as well. University of Alaska Fairbanks ecology Professor Ken Tape, who really likes looking at beavers, has even gone to far as to establish the Arctic Beaver Observation Network, which is something of a command center for Alaskan beaver watching. “It basically changes from a little stream into a sprawling wetlands,” Tape said, pointing to satellite images of one site where beavers have had major impacts on local ecosystems.

Rats getting high as fuck in the Big Easy: New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick on Monday told a city council meeting that the force’s aging headquarters building on Orleans Avenue and Broad Street is falling apart and infested with rats – that have started eating the stored weed in the evidence locker, NOLA.com reports. “The rats are eating our marijuana,” said Kirkpatrick at a Criminal Justice Committee meeting on Monday. “They’re all high.”

Chuck Todd doesn’t have anything to say about Biden’s State of The Union Address: Former Meet The Press anchor (but still employed by NBC) Chuck Todd on Thursday afternoon tweeted “If you don’t think the SOTU matters, then don’t waste my time emailing multiple press releases, substacks and columns telling me that the SOTU doesn’t matter. Here’s a crazy idea: maybe simply write about something else,” then retweeted two other guys and hasn’t posted anything since. Seems almost like he’s disappointed or something. Like if it was that important why didn’t he follow up?