Pigmented algae are well adapted to grow on exposed ice in the Arctic as the snow line recedes, raising concerns of a ...

Researchers found that climate change induced glacial melt increases the heavy metal content and changes the microbiome of habitat-forming brown algae in Arctic fjords. As algae are at the basis of ...

The next step for researchers is to continue monitoring the area. Scientists sound the alarm after discovering drastic ...

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 ...

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.

And if warming Arctic temperatures increase the area of snow algae’s preferred habitat of just-below-freezing snow, the microbes might expand their range further. Other microbes or contaminants ...

Arctic kelp absorbs metals from melting glaciers, increasing mercury levels by 72%. This could harm marine life and fisheries ...

61, No. 3 (2016), pp. 919-937 (19 pages) Ongoing changes in sea ice distribution will have major implications for the ecology of the Arctic Ocean. First year ice (FYI) supports abundant ice-algae ...

Pigmented algae are well adapted to grow on exposed ice in the Arctic as the snow line recedes, raising concerns of a feedback loop that could lead to faster sea level rise ...