Amidst the recent troubling news that Shell Oil has received conditional approval to drill in Arctic waters, a separate, critical victory for the larger Arctic ecosystem was overshadowed.
Extensive glaciation and lower sea levels cut off Arctic from other oceans, resulting in thousands of years of freshwater accumulation
While the Arctic Ocean is largely a carbon sink, researchers find parts are also a source of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Arctic Ocean, smallest of the world’s oceans, centering approximately on the North Pole. The Arctic Ocean and its marginal seas are the least-known basins and bodies of water in the world ocean as a result of their remoteness, hostile weather, and perennial or seasonal ice cover.
Ice melt in the Arctic Ocean is not caused by warming air alone, according to a study that emerged from a workshop at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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The Arctic Ocean has been getting warmer since the beginning of the 20th century – decades earlier than records suggest – due to warmer water flowing into the delicate polar ecosystem from the Atlantic Ocean.
The present study quantifies the magnitude of Arctic sea-ice loss in the boreal summer.
La région polaire connaît en ce moment les plus forts épisodes de chaleur jamais enregistrés : jusqu’à 38 C° en Sibérie. Voici ce qu’il faut savoir et comment on peut agir.
These beautiful and other-worldly photographs of ice were taken last year by University of Washington graduate student Jeff Bowman and his professor Jody Deming while they worked on a study combining oceanography, microbiology, and planetary sciences in the central Arctic Ocean as part of the Integrated Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) program. Their single focus was the study of frost flowers, a strange phenomenon where frost grows from imperfections in the surface ice amid extreme sub-zero temperatures nearing -22C or -7.6F, forming spiky structures that have been found to house microorganisms. More
world renowned italian pianist and composer ludovico einaudi has performed a historic concert, set on a floating platform in the arctic ocean.
