ANTARCTICA KEEPS TURNING GREEN 🌱

 

❗️ A rapidly warming region of Antarctica is turning greener at a shocking rate. 

🔍 Researchers point to climate change as the driving force behind the change in Antarctica's landscape from white to green. Temperatures on the peninsula have risen by almost 3°C since 1950, far more than is seen in most parts of the planet.

🌍 Satellite images of the region show that the area covered by plants has increased almost 14 times in 35 years. While in 1986 vegetation covered less than one square kilometer of the peninsula, in 2021, almost 12 square kilometers were already green.

🐙 Much of the vegetation — is moss. As mosses spread into previously ice-covered landscapes, they will create a layer of soil, offering habitat for other plant life, invasive species. 

⚠️ "Soil in Antarctica is mostly poor or non-existent, but this increase in plant life will add organic matter and facilitate soil formation, potentially opening the way for other plants to grow," — explained Olly Bartlett of the University of Hertfordshire, who was involved in the study.

📌 Earlier, an international group of scientists reported that a magmatic plume is rising from the depths beneath Antarctica. In addition, volcanic and seismic activity is increasing, because there is a group of volcanoes in the region. This internal heat is melting the ice from the bottom to the top, which is causing the landscapes to open up at a rapid rate. And these open areas are now filled with mosses.

♾ Climate change is increasing and has a number of catastrophic consequences for the planet and life on it. To ensure that this climate cycle of cataclysms does not turn into a global catastrophe in the next decade, it is time for people to act. 

💯 It is important to hurry up to unite the scientific potential of mankind into a single scientific center to solve the climate problems in a comprehensive way as soon as possible.

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