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Boreal forests shift north

Advancing greenery could further heat the already warming climate

By Janet Raloff

- More than 2 years ago

For the Arctic, green is the new black.

THEN AND NOW Upper photo taken in 1962 shows tundra-dominated mountain slope in Siberian Urals. A 2004 photo of the same site, below, shows conifers were setting up dense stand of forest. Stepan Shiyatov/Russian Acad. Sci., Global Change Biology 2008

ECO-ADAPTATION The Siberian larch can assume different forms, depending on its climate.