{"id":30990,"date":"2024-10-05T09:57:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T07:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=30990"},"modified":"2024-10-05T09:57:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T07:57:38","slug":"antarctica-is-turning-green-at-a-dramatic-pace-satellite-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/10\/05\/antarctica-is-turning-green-at-a-dramatic-pace-satellite-data-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Antarctica is &#039;greening&#039; at a dramatic pace, satellite data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New research shows that the Antarctic Peninsula&#039;s vegetation cover has increased more than 10-fold over the past four decades. The Antarctic Peninsula, like many polar regions, is warming faster than the global average, with extreme heat in Antarctica becoming more common.<\/p>\n<p>A new study - by the Universities of Exeter and Hertfordshire and the British Antarctic Survey - used satellite data to assess how much the Antarctic Peninsula has been &#039;greening&#039; in response to climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The area of vegetation cover on the entire peninsula was found to have increased from less than one square kilometer in 1986 to nearly 12 square kilometers by 2021. (<em>University of Exeter, more at <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-10-antarctic-greening-satellite.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">phys.org<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research shows that the vegetation cover of the Antarctic Peninsula has increased more than 10-fold in the past four decades. The Antarctic Peninsula, like many polar regions, is warming faster than the global average, with extreme heat waves becoming increasingly common in Antarctica. The new study \u2013 by the Universities of Exeter and Hertfordshire and the British Antarctic Survey \u2013 used satellite data to assess how much [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}