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The potential greening-and-browning of the continents with seasonal variations, with spectral signatures potentially revealing the chemical products powering life on that world.—Big Think, 17 Feb. 2026 While it's been mostly icy for millennia, Greenland experienced localized greening during the Medieval Warm Period (around 900-1300 AD) when Vikings settled there.—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 17 Jan. 2026 Yet greening is not universal – browning events caused by wildfires and extreme weather are also increasing.—Matthew L. Druckenmiller, The Conversation, 16 Dec. 2025 The organization’s Green Heart Project, which studies the impact of better air quality on heart disease through urban greening, has found that increasing the number of trees and shrubs in an area can create lower levels of a blood marker associated with inflammation.—Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for greening