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Herding could help curb Arctic greening and shrubification caused by climate change.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and using data from Berner, Logan, et al. (2020). Story by Sara E. Pratt.

Published December 23, 2021
Data acquired July 8, 2021

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 8 > OLI
Terra > MODIS