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Rachel Keenan

UNCOVERED: Climate experts sound alarm over thriving plant life at greenland ice sheet - The Untold Story

Greenland
Person viewing vegetation next to Greenland ice sheet
Large areas of ice in Greenland have been replaced by barren rock, wetlands and shrub growth. Photograph: Michael_PhD

Significant areas of Greenland’s melted ice sheet are now producing vegetation, risking increased greenhouse gas emissions, rising sea levels and instability of the landscape.

A study has documented the change since the 1980s and shows that large areas of ice have been replaced with barren rock, wetlands and shrub growth, creating a change in environment.

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