'We expected to see some greening, but I don't think we were expecting it on the scale that we reported here,' researcher Tom Roland said.
As climate change slowly strips Antarctica of its glistening white ice, the frozen continent is getting more and more green.New NASA imaged reveal how vegetation cover across the Antarctic Peninsula has increased more than ten times since 1986, only 38 years ago.The maps show that the area of land on the Antarctic Peninsula covered by plants increased from 0.33 square miles to 4.61 square miles between 1986 and 2021, with a notable acceleration in greening after 2016.
Much of this vegetation is moss, with previous research finding that moss accumulation is increasing around the Antarctic Peninsula.'Based on the core samples, we expected to see some greening, but I don't think we were expecting it on the scale that we reported here,' Nature Geoscience study co-author Tom Roland, an environmental scientist University of Exeter, said in a statement.
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