"Rapid Vegetation Growth Replaces Melting Ice on Greenland's Landscape"

A study published in Scientific Reports reveals that over the past three decades, Greenland has experienced significant land cover changes, including a doubling of vegetation coverage and a quadrupling of wetlands. The loss of ice and increased meltwater are also notable, with these changes being strongly associated with differences in the number of positive degree days rather than absolute temperature increase. These land cover changes have profound implications for land surface albedo, greenhouse gas emissions, landscape stability, sediment delivery, and biogeochemical processes.