Arctic cod hide in a crack in the ice. As the Arctic warms, ice is melting earlier in the year and algae are blooming earlier. That may harm algae-eating zooplankton and the cod that feed on them.

the Arctic cod, the crustaceans, the ice algae—may well vanish around Baffin. As we fly over the vast frozen expanse, it almost strains belief to think that we’re witnessing—and with the ...

A decrease in pressure ridges over the past 3 decades is making the ice more uniform, with unclear consequences.

a portion of the Arctic Ocean remains covered in ice year-round. New research on ice cores sampled from this multi-year ice show thriving communities of algae - tiny plants that form the basis of the ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide is warming Arctic seawater at a rate twice the global average due to multiple positive feedbacks. Thus, ...

Beluga whales, narwhals, ringed seals and numerous Arctic seabirds have one thing in common: their preferred food is polar cod, Boreogadus saida. “For the first time, we’ve been able to use a ...

As the oceans continue to warm, the research has shown that ice seals are shifting their diet from Arctic cod to Saffron cod ... of that is a small fraction of algae blooms turn out to be harmful ...

F or bears of both the market and polar kind, a planet without an ice cap is a tragedy. The Arctic is warming four times ...

With the melt, algae is threatened and the food chain begins to collapse. Seasonal sea ice, which melts and reforms each year, now makes up over 70 per cent of Arctic sea ice. However, with each ...

Algae that tinge snow red are to blame for about a sixth of the snowmelt at an Alaskan ice field Microbes are ... team sampled red snow from across the Arctic and found that its presence decreased ...

"This indicates selectivity of certain algae species and, possibly, their use of those metals in vital processes." The Vaygach is the only island in the Russian Arctic where polymetallic ores were ...