Monday, June 13, 2016

87,000 NASA Images Show a Greening Arctic

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Golfing in Greenland. Photo by Graphicos
The northern edge of North America is getting steadily greener. In the most detailed study so far of plant growth across Alaska and Canada, scientists say that about a third of the land cover now looks less like tundra, and more like a warmer ecosystem. Story here.

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