The warming Earth makes Antarctica more and more green

The green is gradually covering wider on the surface of Antarctica, which has never happened in the land all year round covered with this snow and white ice.

This abnormality is thought to be due to the effects of global warming causing ice to melt faster, giving way to the proliferation of plants .

When studying mosses in the area stretching 640km, scientists discovered they grew at a faster rate over the past 50 years.

Ice on Antarctica (Antarctic) continent on December 17, 2016.(Source: Kyodo / TTXVN).

According to scientists, the southern and northern polar regions of the Earth warm up at a faster rate than the rest of the regions.

The Arctic heats up at the fastest rate and is soon followed by Antarctica with a temperature rise of 0.5 degrees Celsius every decade from the 50s of the last century.

Currently plants grow on about 0.3% of the Antarctic area and if the Earth's warming situation continues at the same speed as in the last half century, the area of ​​moss covered Antarctica will increase rapidly in the hybrid

Scientists also said that if they had only seen moss grow in the far southern part of the Antarctic Peninsula, they now found moss in other areas such as Elephant Island, Ardley Island and the island. Green. This shows the changes taking place on an ever-expanding scale.

The rapid development of moss according to changes in temperature suggests that the ecosystem will change rapidly according to global warming. In the future, this will lead to major fluctuations in the landscape and landscape of these typical areas.

The study is published in the April 18 issue of Current Biology.