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Environment & Energy

Cirque du So-What

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1. I saw a photo recently

Reply to BridgeTheGap (Original post)

Tue May 1, 2012, 09:26 AM

May 2012

A patch of grass - clearly a non-native species - near Antarctica's coastline. It was bigger than a lawn but didn't qualify as a pasture, but it points out how easily non-native species can gain a foothold in even the most inhospitable and unlikely of places.

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