By Janet Raloff
For the
Arctic
, green is the
new black.
People frequently say “green” to mean “environmentally friendly.” But encroaching conifer forests — really big greens — threaten to further spike the far North’s already low-grade fever.
Temperatures in the high Arctic already are climbing “at about twice the global average,” notes F. Stuart Chapin of the University of Alaska Fairbanks .
The newest data on the advance of northern, or boreal, forests come from the eastern slopes of
People frequently say “green” to mean “environmentally friendly.” But encroaching conifer forests — really big greens — threaten to further spike the far North’s already low-grade fever.
Temperatures in the high Arctic already are climbing “at about twice the global average,” notes F. Stuart Chapin of the University of Alaska Fairbanks .
The newest data on the advance of northern, or boreal, forests come from the eastern slopes of