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 ...

It is common knowledge that Arctic cleanup work is challenging and expensive. Long distances, hard-to-access areas, scattered ...

As the planet heats up, the summer sea ice and all the superbly adapted life it supports—the bears, the seals, the walruses, the whales, the Arctic cod, the crustaceans, the ice algae—may well ...

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.

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 ...

Dark algae that grow on the surface of Arctic ice sheets are likely to expand their range in the future, a trend that will exacerbate melt, sea level rise and warming. “These algae are not a new ...

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

"This indicates selectivity of certain algae species and, possibly, their use of those metals in vital processes." The Vaygach is the only island in the Russian Arctic where polymetallic ores were ...

The cell functions also enable Streptofilum to adapt to extreme environmental conditions. The algae survive in dry, cold Arctic soils and can reactivate rapidly after droughts. They are also ...