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Antarctica Growing Green With Grass
APR 5, 2011 09:00 AM ET // BY TIM WALL
Antarctica Growing Green With Grass : Discovery News
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The rapid warming of the Antarctic has been a boon for two native plants. As the temperature warms ancient peat decomposes into a nitrogen buffet for the Antarctic pearlwort (Colobanthus quitensis) and Antarctic hairgrass (Deschampsia antarctica).
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Antarctica going green due to climate change
Antarctica going green due to climate change - Telegraph
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A team of UK and Australian scientists has found that the hairgrass has spread over the last 50 years due to global warming
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"Crazy Green" Algae Pools Seen in Antarctic Sea
Water's teeming life "exceeds all expectations," scientist says.
"Crazy Green" Algae Pools Seen in Antarctic Sea
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Such an algae explosion may actually be a climate boon, since the plants gobble up more of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide—but only to a point, she warned.
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