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Tundra Vegetation to Grow Taller, Greener Through 2100, NASA Study Finds
Warming global climate is changing the vegetation structure of forests in the far north. It’s a trend that will continue at least through the end of this century, according to NASA researchers who analyzed millions of data points from the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite 2 (ICESat-2) and Landsat missions at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS).
