“...white is no vegetation or barren and grey is where the data does not show a statistically significant greening or browning.”
–Prof. Myneni (private communication)
Related:
1. Sahara Desert Greening Due to Climate Change?, by James Owen, National Geographic News, July 31, 2009 (or here; was here)
2. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth (& video), & paper:
Zhu et al, 2016. Greening of the Earth and its drivers. Nature Climate Change 6, 791-795. doi:10.1038/nclimate3004
3. http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Elevated_carbon_dioxide_making_arid_regions_greener_999.html (and paper & excerpt)
4. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg17523610-300-africans-go-back-to-the-land-as-plants-reclaim-the-desert/ (or here; was here)
5. Smithsonian Magazine noticed, “These landscapes are really being transformed”
5. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/05/greener-deserts-higher-co2-climate-change_n_3391267.html
6. https://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144540/china-and-india-lead-the-way-in-greening
7. http://co2coalition.org/
8. http://co2science.org/data/plant_growth/plantgrowth.php
9. http://sealevel.info/1920sciamCO2
10. Bastin, F-L., et al., 2017. The extent of forest in dryland biomes. Science 356, 635-638.
11. https://www.csiro.au/en/News/News-releases/2013/Deserts-greening-from-rising-CO2 (or on ScienceDaily)
12. Keenan et al., 2016. Recent pause in the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 due to enhanced terrestrial carbon uptake. Nat Commun 7, 13428.
13. https://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2017/05/16/study-earth-is-becoming-greener-not-browner-due-to-climate-change/
14. O'Sullivan et al, 2019. Have synergies between nitrogen deposition and atmospheric CO2 driven the recent enhancement of the terrestrial carbon sink? Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 33, 163-180.
15. Brandt et al, 2017. Human population growth offsets climate-driven increase in woody vegetation in sub-Saharan Africa. Nat Ecol Evol 1, 0081.
16. Chen et al, 2019. China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management. Nat Sustain 2, 122-129.
17. Winkler, AJ, et al, 2019. Earth system models underestimate carbon fixation by plants in the high latitudes. Nature Communications 10, Article number: 885 (2019).
18. Myers-Smith, Isla H. et al, 2020. Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic. Nature Climate Change, 2020; 10 (2): 106. doi:10.1038/s41558-019-0688-1 (and ScienceDaily article).
19. Piao, Shilong, et al, 2020. Characteristics, drivers and feedbacks of global greening. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 1, p.14-27. doi:10.1038/s43017-019-0001-x.
20. Chen et al, 2024. The global greening continues despite increased drought stress since 2000. Global Ecology and Conservation 49. doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2023.e02791 (and article)
21. With CO2 Levels Rising, World's Drylands Are Turning Green by Fred Pearce, Yale Environment360
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