NEW: Yes this photo is of Antarctica, the "White" Continent.
New research paper in @Nature shows that in one of the fastest-warming parts of Antarctica, the Antarctic Peninsula, the amount of land covered by vegetation has increased 14 fold since 1986.
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
I only spent a few hours in Dubai but I found it totally surreal. To think all of that is within just a few hundred km of so much terror and destruction. It’s bizarre.