New Study finds ‘a striking global greening trend’ – ‘Robust quantitative evidence of widespread global greening…measurable increases in vegetation cover over the past four decades’ – Published in journal Remote Sensing Applications

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Findings from the TST workflow (Fig. 2) provide robust quantitative evidence of widespread global greening, with a significant portion of Earth’s terrestrial land surface showing measurable increases in vegetation cover over the past four decades. The predominance of greening trends, especially in regions with NDVI values above 0.15, suggests a general increase in vegetation productivity in many areas. This could be attributed to CO₂ fertilisation, climate change, and land use changes, as indicated by other investigations (Chen et al., 2024; Piao et al., 2019; Zhu et al., 2016). Although vegetation greening has been reported on all continents, it is particularly pronounced in Eurasia, including regions of Europe and China (Chen et al., 2019a).

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