[PCA] NEWS: Warming Arctic Tundra Producing Pop-Up Forests

[Olivia Kwong]

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/warming-arctic-tundra-producing-pop-up-forests/?ref=science

June 3, 2012, 1:02 pm
Warming Arctic Tundra Producing Pop-Up Forests
By ANDREW C. REVKIN

Even as insect infestations and other factors accompanying warming have 
led to the "browning" of some stretches of boreal forest between temperate 
regions and the Arctic tundra, the tundra appears to be greening in a big 
way, various studies have shown. The newest such work, focused on scrubby 
windswept regions along Russia's northwest Arctic coast, has found a 
particularly noteworthy shift is under way.

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