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From meadows to scrubland: how global warming is transforming Colorado's alpine meadows
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One of the changes resulting from global warming can be observed in the heart of the Colorado Rockies, where an ongoing experiment has shown that "a sustained increase of just 2 °C can fundamentally alter entire ecosystems." This change has led to the disappearance of alpine meadows and is allowing
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