Reuters: Plants and shrubs have colonised parts of the Arctic tundra in recent decades growing into small trees, a scientific study found, adding the change may lead to an increase in global warming pressures if replicated on a wider scale. Scientists from Finland and Oxford University investigated an area of 100,000 square km, roughly the size of Iceland, in the northwestern Eurasian tundra, stretching from western Siberia to Finland. Using data from satellite imaging, fieldwork and observations from...
URL: http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/06/03/climate-arctic-idINDEE85208420120603
Enclosure: http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20120603&t=2&i=614754846&w=460&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=CDEE8521CQZ00
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