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Increased vegetation in the Arctic region may counteract global warming
2016-05-25 02:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Climate change creates more shrub vegetation in barren, arctic ecosystems. A study at Lund University in Sweden shows that organisms, such as bacteria and fungi, are triggered to break down particularly nutritious dead parts of shrubbery. Meanwhile, the total amount of decomposition is reducing. This could have an inhibiting effect on global warming. A large amount of the Earths carbon and nitrogen is stored in arctic ecosystems where the ground is permanently frozen, known as permafrost. Climate...
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