East Antarctic mosses dying out due to climate change
Antarctica has very little vegetation apart from a few extremely hardy mosses that grow in East Antarctica. Now it seems these are dying off due to climate change which has made the region much drier. Read the BBC’s news item or the scientific paper in Nature Climate Change.
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