Beautiful Yet Unnerving Photos of the Arctic Getting Greener

     The Arctic is getting greener and prettier, however this is not a good thing. researchers are gathering satellite data, quadcopter measurements, and data taken from manual ground findings. The data gathered about the Arctic over the past few years shows that the grasses and shrubs in the Arctic that would grow every year are getting taller and more abundant year after year. As temperatures rise in the Arctic, the layers of snow and frost that would normally keep the landscape frozen are being taken over by the increasing abundance of tall shrubs in the Arctic. Those packed down layers of snow hold tons of the Earths greenhouse gasses, and if they melt they will release those potent gasses and severely harm our carbon cycle. The sudden release of these greenhouse gasses will be too much for the plants to take in and the gasses will be released into the atmosphere and further increase the rate of global warming.

    It may be quite amazing to see all of the vibrant plant life that the Arctic snow was hiding, though we should not be able to see this much green. The increasing planetary temperature is increasing the amount of plants that are piercing through the snowy landscape and warming it up. The rapid increase in plant life is releasing all of the trapped green house gasses within the ice and furthermore helping global warming. Its troubling to see how much humans have harmed the Earth's environments to the point where the Earth is beginning to harm itself through the functionalities of its cycles.

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