Shrinking sea ice affects polar bears As world leaders continue to ramp up efforts to curb climate change, the specter of polar bears looms over them. In the harsh and unforgiving Arctic, where frigid cold is not just a way of life but a necessity, the polar bear stands out. But where...
The North Pole's shrinking ice cap has already affected some coastal cities in Alaska, Meier said. NASA primarily uses satellites and specially designed airplanes to track the movement of Arctic sea ice. The agency's six-year Operation IceBridge mission conducts flights over the Arctic to measure...
Last week, scientists reported that the extent of Arctic sea ice diminished slightly between 1978 and 1987, although they say it is still too early to tell whether the ice changes bear the fingerprint of a greenhouse warming.EBSCO_AspScience News...
In the Arctic, sea-ice plays a central role in the functioning of marine food webs and its rapid shrinking has large effects on the biota. It is thus crucial to assess the importance of sea-ice and ice-derived resources to Arctic marine species. Here, we used a multi-biomarker approach ...
Arctic sea ice has been doubly affected in recent decades: shrinking in extent and losing its oldest, thickest ice. This leaves the ice cap more vulnerable to a warming ocean and atmosphere. New research shows that the Arctic sea ice has been hit with a double whammy over the past decades...
"It's the dead of winter, there's no light, it's well below freezing. It should be locked in with ice all the way across, but the ice has significantly retreated even in the winter time." The shrinking sea ice could have a potentially disastrous effect on animals such as polar bears...
The rapid shrinking of the ice cover has attracted much attention to the Arctic sea ice teleconnections and predictions on seasonal-to-decadal time scales in recent years23,24,25,26. However, our understanding of the Arctic sea ice variability on weather time scales is still in its infancy27,...
Shrinking sea ice threatening ringed seals in Arctic.(CLIMATEWATCH)(Brief article)The article presents information on the loss of habitat of the seals that... Rustad,Harley - Geographical (Geographical Magazine Ltd 被引量: 0发表: 2012年 Improving Arctic Sea Ice Observations and Data Access to ...
The shrinking sea-ice might cause the bears to move toward land. Last year, in Russia’s Arctic area, groups of hungry polar bears broke into villages and towns, because they couldn’t find food on the ice as usual. “Everyone understood why this happened,” Mikhail Stishov from the ...
9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook midnight sun (redirected fromArctic summer) Thesaurus Encyclopedia midnight sun n. The sun as seen at midnight during the summer within the Arctic and Antarctic Circles. ...