{"id":81937,"date":"2018-08-21T13:22:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T20:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/ecosystems-are-getting-greener-in-the-arctic"},"modified":"2018-08-25T18:26:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T01:26:15","slug":"ecosystems-are-getting-greener-in-the-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/ecosystems-are-getting-greener-in-the-arctic","title":{"rendered":"Ecosystems are getting greener in the Arctic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ecosystems-are-getting-greener-in-the-arctic.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In recent decades, scientists have noted a surge in Arctic plant growth as a symptom of climate change. But without observations showing exactly when and where vegetation has bloomed as the world\u2019s coldest areas warm, it\u2019s difficult to predict how vegetation will respond to future warming. Now, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have developed a new approach that may paint a more accurate picture of Arctic vegetation and our climate\u2019s recent past \u2013 and future.<\/p>\n<p>In a study published online Aug. 20 in <i>Nature Climate Change<\/i>, the researchers used satellite images taken over the past 30 years to track \u2013 down to a pixel representing approximately 25 square miles \u2013 the ebb and flow of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/plant+growth\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">plant growth<\/a> in cold areas of the northern hemisphere, such as Alaska, the Arctic region of Canada, and the Tibetan Plateau.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year historic satellite data used in the study were collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer. The data was processed by Boston University, and is hosted on NEX \u2013 the NASA Earth Exchange data archive.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-08-ecosystems-greener-arctic.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;08-ecosystems-greener-arctic.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent decades, scientists have noted a surge in Arctic plant growth as a symptom of climate change. But without observations showing exactly when and where vegetation has bloomed as the world\u2019s coldest areas warm, it\u2019s difficult to predict how vegetation will respond to future warming. Now, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Lawrence [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82060,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81937\/revisions\/82060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}