Regions of Antarctica are being rapidly “greened” by growing vegetation as our planet warms, suggests a new study. In the last 40 years, the area of the northern Antarctic Peninsula covered by greenery – mostly mosses – has increased by more than 1000%. Global warming affects our whole planet, but polar regions are heating up more rapidly. Scientists at the University of Exeter and the University of Herefordshire, working with the British Antarctic Survey, used satellite data to assess how global warming had changed the landscape of the Antarctic Peninsula. In 1986, the Peninsula was virtually…