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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThanks to global warming, Antarctica is beginning to turn green
https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=Researchers in Antarctica have discovered rapidly growing banks of mosses on the ice continents northern peninsula, providing striking evidence of climate change in the coldest and most remote parts of the planet.
Amid the warming of the last 50 years, the scientists found two different species of mosses undergoing the equivalent of growth spurts, with mosses that once grew less than a millimeter per year now growing over 3 millimeters per year on average.
People will think of Antarctica quite rightly as a very icy place, but our work shows that parts of it are green, and are likely to be getting greener, said Matthew Amesbury, a researcher with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom and lead author of the new study. Even these relatively remote ecosystems, that people might think are relatively untouched by human kind, are showing the effects of human induced climate change.
The study was published Thursday in Current Biology, by Amesbury and colleagues with the University of Cambridge, the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Durham.
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Thanks to global warming, Antarctica is beginning to turn green (Original Post)
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May 2017
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lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)1. We have screwed the pooch.
I worry for future generations.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)3. I worry about whether there will be future generations. (eom)
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)2. KNR Thank you!
secondwind
(16,903 posts)4. FDT