The vast, sunlit waters of the ocean’s surface, known as the photic zone, nurture 90% of marine life. Sunlight and moonlight ...

The Arctic Ocean is Earth's northernmost body of water. It encircles the Arctic, and flows beneath it. Most of the Arctic Ocean is covered by ice throughout the year—although that is starting to ...

The Arctic marine food web. Image by NOAA (Public domain ... a researcher studying the Northwest Atlantic Ocean climate with Fisheries and Oceans Canada. “These large-scale disruptions of ...

The Arctic Ocean has grown more acidic at a surprising rate in recent years, three times faster than the rest of the global ocean. Melting sea ice has exposed the top level of the Arctic Ocean to ...

Climate change is causing the Arctic Ocean's sea ice to melt away. When the polar ocean loses its cover of sea ice, carbon dioxide uptake increases disrupting the food web in the water according ...

The acidity of the Arctic Ocean currently peaks in winter ... in the future — this is bad news for ecosystem functions, food webs and Indigenous communities. Victoria Qutuuq Buschman is at ...

As it becomes easier for some species to survive and harder for others, an entire food web could collapse or be reshaped from the bottom up. This kind of "regime shift" in the Arctic Ocean is an ...

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 ...

Ocean acidification (OA) is spreading rapidly in the western Arctic Ocean in both area and depth, according to new interdisciplinary research reported in Nature Climate Change by a team of ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. As predicted by chemistry, change in the Arctic Ocean is accelerating as ...