As the planet warms, the Arctic treeline is accelerating towards the pole, turning the white landscape to green. The trees used to creep forward a few centimetres every year; now they are leaping north at a rate of 40 to 50 metres a year. (source)
Saturday, January 22, 2022
Downy
Meet the downy birch, the intrepid first responder to climate change who is spearheading the reforestation of the Arctic, with potentially calamitous consequences for the lifeways of the Sami and their reindeer - as well as for slowing already galloping global heating.
As the planet warms, the Arctic treeline is accelerating towards the pole, turning the white landscape to green. The trees used to creep forward a few centimetres every year; now they are leaping north at a rate of 40 to 50 metres a year. (source)
As the planet warms, the Arctic treeline is accelerating towards the pole, turning the white landscape to green. The trees used to creep forward a few centimetres every year; now they are leaping north at a rate of 40 to 50 metres a year. (source)
