“The year 2020 was the greenest in modern satellite records from 2001 to 2020, according to a recent study published in Remote Sensing of Environment. Consistent growth in northern and temperate regions, combined with a brief period of tropical growth, primarily led to this remarkably verdant period…
To tease out the drivers of Earth’s green-up, they used machine learning and ecological simulations to explore how different environmental and human factors might have affected vegetation growth. Contrary to expectations, pandemic-related lockdowns had a limited effect on global greening…
The team found that 2020’s record-high greening was instead primarily associated with temperate and colder regions, fueled by rising CO2 levels, climate warming and reforestation efforts. The effects of climate warming were most prominent in cooler areas, such as boreal forests, where rising temperatures extended growing seasons.”
From Phys.org.