Saturday, 16 June 2012

Arctic getting greener

Arctic getting greener: Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Jun 15, 2012



Recent years' warming in the Arctic has caused local changes in vegetation, reveals new research by biologists from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and elsewhere published in the prestigious journals Nature Climate Change and Ecology Letters. The results show that most plants in the Arctic have grown taller, and the proportion of bare ground has decreased. Above all, there has been an incr