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The Forest Forecast

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Science (AAAS)

Publication Date
2022-05-19

These are strange times for the Indigenous Nenets reindeer herders of northern Siberia. In their lands on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, bare tundra is thawing, bushes are sprouting, and willows that a generation ago struggled to reach knee height now grow 3 meters tall, hiding the reindeer. Surveys show the Nenets autonomous district, an area the size of Florida, now has four times as many trees as official inventories recorded in the 1980s.

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https://www.science.org/content/article/trees-help-curb-climate-change-can-also-contribute-warming-reducing-earths-reflectivity