Parts of the Antarctic Peninsula will change colour as “green snow” caused by blooming algae is expected to spread with increases in global temperatures, research showed Wednesday.
They identified more than 1,600 separate green algae blooms on snow across the peninsula, with a combined surface area of 1.9 square kilometres. The team calculated that algae on the peninsula currently absorb levels of CO2 equivalent to 875,000 average car journeys. “As Antarctica continues to warm on small low-lying islands, at some point you will stop getting snow coverings on those in the summer,” said Andrew Gray, lead author and researcher at the University of Cambridge and NERC Field Spectroscopy Facility, Edinburgh.
Gray told AFP that the green snow blooms on higher ground would “more than offset” the effect of sea-level algae losses.
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