Scientists are seeing changes off Alaska that have never been documented before, as warming upsets a vast ecosystem and one of the world's vital fisheries. Climate change transforms ecosystems in ...

Donald Trump plans to open 82% of the United States' largest tract of public land in the pursuit of fossil fuels.

Lemmings underpin the Arctic ecosystem: Their abundance is linked to successful reproduction for numerous bird and mammal species. Image courtesy of Dorothee Ehrich. Life on land gets harder.

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

Rapid changes in the Arctic ecosystem during ice minimum in summer 2012. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2013 / 02 / 130214141756.htm.

It’s not yet clear what these new residents mean for the Arctic ecosystem, but concerns are growing, and locals and scientists are paying close attention.

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 ...

Huge quantities of algae are growing on the underside of sea ice in the Central Arctic: In 2012 the ice algae Melosira arctica was responsible for almost half the primary production in this area.

Aerial photography from the 1950s showed no beaver ponds at all in Arctic Alaska. But in a recent study, Ken Tape, an ecologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, scanned satellite images of ...

For the Arctic, this means that air temperatures and autumn rain will only continue to increase, the study says. It's a negative impact on local ecosystems, but for humans as well, as Arctic lake ...

Last Year's Extreme Snowfall Caused 'Complete Reproductive Failure' in Arctic Ecosystem. Published Oct 15, 2019 at 2:00 PM EDT Updated Oct 16, 2019 at 3:45 AM EDT. By Rosie McCall .

The company wants to start with a limited release: restore a small herd of these franken-elephants into a reserve-like ecosystem in the Arctic tundra where mammoths once ruled.