In polar regions, microbes are influencing climate change as frozen ecosystems thaw

Microbes across Earth's coldest regions are becoming more active as glaciers, permafrost and sea ice thaw, accelerating ...

Brookfield Zoo leads effort to protect polar bears as Trump opens Arctic refuge to oil drilling

Brookfield Zoo, which has cared for generations of polar bears, hopes to offer guidelines for an area where mothers den at ...
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Frontiers in Understanding Climate Change and Polar Ecosystems: A Workshop

Rapid changes in climate in the polar regions are causing observable ecological impacts of various types and degrees of severity at all ecosystem levels. Even larger changes and more significant ...
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In the gateway to the Arctic, fat, ice and polar bears are crucial. All three are in trouble

ON HUDSON BAY (AP) — Searching for polar bears where the Churchill River dumps into Canada's massive Hudson Bay, biologist Geoff York scans a region that's on a low fat, low ice diet because of ...

The Arctic is breaking its own climate rules, and scientists say it’s getting dangerous

The Arctic is not just getting warmer. It is starting to behave in new manners in ways that are dangerous for nature. For decades, scientists mostly tracked average changes. Slightly warmer summers.

How bringing back a humble algae to Arctic waters makes all the difference

For decades researchers in northern Norway had tried to bring back vital kelp forests after overfishing damaged marine ...