Understanding Arctic Ocean's carbon cycle Date: May 21, 2012 Source: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Summary: Scientists have conducted a new study to measure levels of carbon at various ...

WITH a hibernation period of up to 100 million years, bacteria discovered on the Arctic sea floor may have longest life cycle of any known organism. Casey Hubert from the Geosciences Group at ...

In the short term, this creates something of a nutrient injection that jump starts the cycle of life in the ocean. But this April saw a record loss of sea ice across the Arctic.

Arctic ice melt is setting stage for severe winters Date: June 6, 2012 Source: Cornell University Summary: A dramatic melt-off of Arctic sea ice due to climate change is hitting closer to home ...

Today’s Arctic sea ice is more likely to resemble a snow-covered parking lot than the chaotic ice blocks Nansen saw. Two years of tanking summer sea ice—in 2005 and 2007—exposed the dark ...

The National Snow and Ice Data Center declared that sea ice in the Arctic reached a near-record low this year. Some scientists believe that Nor'easters and other severe weather is the result.

The authors suggest that climate change will increasingly affect the Arctic Ocean's nitrogen cycle. More frequent Arctic wildfires will mean greater carbon and nitrogen emissions. Rising ocean CO 2 ...