By understanding the interconnectedness of Antarctica with the outside world, we can recognize its importance in shaping the future of the planet???? What is outside the Antarctic?
Vegetation is taking over in Antarctica
"A key region of Antarctica is getting greener with alarming speed — a trend that will spur rapid change of Antarctic ecosystems. Researchers looked at satellite imagery of one of the continent’s fastest-warming regions: the Antarctic Peninsula, which juts north towards the tip of South America. They found that the area covered by plants increased by almost 14 times between 1986 and 2021. “It's the beginning of dramatic transformation,” says remote-sensing specialist and study co-author Olly Bartlett..."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03219-2
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Sustained greening of the Antarctic Peninsula observed from satellites
"Ultimately, a clear understanding of the nature and future of biological responses across the AP to Antarctic climate change is limited by a relative lack of long-term data. The work presented here provides a remote-sensing baseline against which to track the extent and nature of Antarctic greening—a trend that these results imply is now under way. We anticipate that future work can be informed by further ground-based validation and projection modelling of both (micro)climate and species distribution. Combined, this work has the potential to inform effective and essential biosecurity governance of the AP and wider Antarctic region in the longer term..."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01564-5#Sec2
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