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Warmed Arctic is ‘going green’

Land within the Arctic Circle is likely to experience explosive “greening” in the next few decades as grass, shrubs and trees thrive in soil stripped of ice and permafrost by global warming, a study said yesterday.

Wooded areas in the Arctic could increase by as much as 52 percent by the 2050s as the maximum latitude at which trees can grow shifts north, according to the study, led by a researcher at the Museum of Natural History