Lapland’s mystery moths puzzle science | Climate News Network
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By Tim Radford
Arctic moths which continue to thrive despite rising temperatures are challenging science to explain why they seem impervious to climate change.
LONDON, 22 April – Finnish and US scientists have an unsolved puzzle: good news when they expected bad news. They have invested 32 years studying the forest moths of Finnish Lapland to measure the effect of climate change – and there doesn’t seem on the face of it to have been a change. Yet between 1978 and 2009, average annual temperatures in the region rose by 2°C and precipitation was higher.
