Glaciers and sea ice are declining, impacting marine biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, tourism and Arctic livelihoods.

Without an ice layer on the ocean's surface, the light penetrating the waters changes, affecting the type of algae and ...

The net is designed to trap some of the ocean’s smallest organisms: zooplankton. As it is dragged on board, Nielsen, a molecular biologist and currently scientific leader of Arctic Station on ...

The findings suggest that the capacity of polar oceans to remove carbon from the atmosphere may be reduced as the world ...

Due to intensifying sea-ice melting in the Arctic, sunlight is now penetrating deeper and deeper into the ocean. Since marine zooplankton respond to the available light, this is also changing ...

The Arctic is changing. Fast ... As light trickles through the ice, a home is created for microscopic algae and plankton, which feed fish and whales, and, in turn, seals, beluga whales and ...

University of Washington's Laidre said some scientists think the smallest water zooplankton called copepods are the most important animals in the Arctic. They're fat heavy and the staple of ...

But many other Arctic species are suffering a similar fate -- from plankton all the way to the great whales." The impacts of climate change are "unfolding far more rapidly in the Arctic than any ...

Johnna M. Holding, Carlos M. Duarte, Antonio Delgado-Huertas, Karline Soetaert, Jorien E. Vonk, Susana Agustí, Paul Wassmann, Jack J. Middelburg Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 62, No. 3 (2017), pp.