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June 16, 2017

THE ANTARCTIC Peninsula is turning green, with rising temperatures having a "dramatic effect" on the growth of moss, scientists have discovered.

- Vikas Choudhary

Antarctic Peninsula Gets Greener

Since 1950, temperatures in the Antarctic Peninsula have risen by about 0.5°C each decade—much faster than the global average. And growth rates of moss after 1950 have been four to five times the level before that year, according to a study by the UK-based researchers who studied three sites across a 1,000km stretch of the peninsula.

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