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New models predict drastically greener Arctic in coming decades

2013-04-01 01:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: New research predicts that rising temperatures will lead to a massive "greening," or increase in plant cover, in the Arctic. In a paper published on March 31 in Nature Climate Change, scientists reveal new models projecting that wooded areas in the Arctic could increase by as much as 50 percent over the next few decades. The researchers also show that this dramatic greening will accelerate climate warming at a rate greater than previously expected. "Such widespread redistribution of Arctic vegetation...

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