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Vegetation of the sub-Antarctic – moss fringed stream with tussock grass, South Georgia.
Vegetation of the sub-Antarctic – moss fringed stream with tussock grass, South Georgia.
Antarctica's 'moss forests' are drying and dying 25 septembre 2018, 08:24 CEST Lush moss beds in East Antarctica's Windmill Islands. Sharon Robinson, Author provided Auteurs
Melinda Waterman has received funding from an Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship, Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering postgraduate award, an Endeavour Research Fellowship and University of Wollongong's Global Challenges Program.
Sharon Robinson receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering, the Antarctic Science Grants and the University of Wollongong's Global Challenges Program
The lush moss beds that grow near East Antarctica's coast are among the only plants that can withstand life on the frozen continent. But our new research shows that these slow-growing plants are changing at a far faster rate than anticipated.
We began monitoring plant ecosystems 18 years ago, near Australia's Casey Station in the Windmill Islands, East Antarctica.
Comment: Global warmists claimed the planet would warm and meltwater would cause sea levels to rise (note: it's quite the opposite), so the fact that Antarctica is actually drying is yet another data point that lays their erroneous theories to rest. However, NASA has documented a huge increase in snowfall over Antarctica since 1900, which supports mountains of data that, amongst other things, our planet is cooling:
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