Antarctica is ‘greening’ at dramatic rate as climate heats

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Analysis of satellite data finds plant cover has increased more than tenfold over the last few decades

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...mate-heats

I wonder how much it increased before the "last few decades".

Answers to that are further down the article:
"This place had been hidden from the atmosphere for thousands of years and was colonised by plants within a couple of decades of it becoming ice free – it’s astonishing really,” he said. “It’s a barometer of climate change but also a tipping point for the region as life now has a foothold there.”

And: " Trees were growing at the south pole a few million years ago, when the planet last had as much CO2 in the atmosphere as it does today."