Arctic spring comes two weeks early

Plants and animals show big spring-time shift over a decade.

Spring-time in the Arctic is arriving earlier than it did a decade ago, say ecologists working in Greenland. Processes that mark the beginning of spring, such as flowers blooming and egg-laying, are now happening an average of more than 14 days earlier in the calendar than they did as recently as 1996, as a result of rising temperatures.

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