T he basis of the marine food web in the Arctic, the phytoplankton, responds to heat waves much differently than to constantly elevated temperatures. This has been found by the first targeted ...

Arctic glacier retreat has exposed over 1,600 kilometers of new coastline in Greenland, but experts warn this isn't a ...

She wonders, too, whether Arctic phytoplankton’s ability to ride out near-absolute darkness might be shared by some algae in the colder, darker waters of the deep sea. If she’s right ...

For Arrigo and his team, it was also a rare opportunity to study the Arctic marine ecosystem firsthand ... had hit an unexpectedly large phytoplankton hotspot in the Chukchi Sea, just off the Bering ...

“Arctic Station has been here for more than ... Martin Nielsen transfers water samples filled with phytoplankton and zooplankton harvested from his field site, a section of open ocean off ...

By Park Hye Ri The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries on March 30 announced in a world first confirmation of the expansion of Atlantification of the Arctic Ocean deep into the latter's western section ...

UD doctoral student Tianyu Zhou is pictured on the right using a shovel to remove snow that covers the sea ice during a ...

Phytoplankton are changing the “physical property of the ... A positive feedback process is already known to occur in the Arctic, as the darker-hued ocean water absorbs more sun than the ...

It is common knowledge that Arctic cleanup work is challenging and expensive. Long distances, hard-to-access areas, scattered ...

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 ...

A six-year investigation found that eukaryotic phytoplankton decline under high CO 2 conditions, while cyanobacteria remain unaffected. Nutrient availability, particularly nitrogen, influenced ...