Microplastics in Arctic ecosystem discovered. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 08 / 210804210144.htm. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen ...

When the Arctic air warmed up in the 1980s, this delicate ecosystem started venting large quantities of carbon dioxide gas into the atmosphere, potentially adding to global climate change.

'Urgent' Need to Protect the Arctic's Ecosystem, Report Says. Published Apr 08, 2017 at 10:10 AM EDT Updated Apr 13, 2017 at 10:16 AM EDT.

The Arctic is an “indicator region” for the rest of the planet: small differences in temperature there can have profound ecosystem impacts — and can give us a better idea of the types of ...

A study led by the UAB and the CREAF shows that the loss of nitrogen from Arctic soil not only deprives plants of a vital ...

The polar bear has become the poster child of global warming, but there's more to the Arctic than ice and polar bears. ... The Melting Arctic’s Impact on Its Ecosystem. June 10, 2008.

The arctic ecosystem depends on them. In springtime, the algae bloom brilliant shades of green and draw tiny crustaceans, fish, birds and more to Arctic waters.

These arctic river icings, which can be up to 33 feet thick, multiple kilometers wide and stretch tens of kilometers in length, disappeared on average 26 days earlier in 2015 than they did in 2000 ...

The Arctic could be "ice-free" in just a few years, scientists have found. Here's what that means. The region, which sits at the northernmost point of the globe, is a unique ecosystem ...

International consulting firm Stantec, which has three offices in Maine, has been selected to lead a long-term scientific study of the Arctic marine ecosystem, which was spurred, in part, by ...