But life may not wait for the ice to retreat, after all. Scientists visiting the continental shelf of the Chukchi Sea between Siberia and Alaska last July discovered a bright green bloom of ...

But that’s not what Kevin Arrigo saw a few years back. He was in the Chukchi Sea for a research cruise funded by NASA. Arrigo: "The deeper we went into the ice, the more phytoplankton there were.

but field observations are an essential part of understanding the plankton in the ocean, and fieldwork is what I am best at. My research focuses on the Chukchi Sea, which is a part of the Arctic ...

Melting ice provides nutrients that fuel plankton blooms when sunlight is ... in ocean sediments in the Chukchi Sea, north of the Bering Strait. Unlike the nourishing blooms that bring life ...

I stood on the shore of the Chukchi Sea, at the far northern rim of Alaska. On that late May evening, a maze of shifting ice spilled off to the horizon; a world of the same stretched beyond that ...

Plankton-eating auklets, for instance, increased in the northern Bering Sea in 2017 and 2018, but declined in the Chukchi Sea. Scientists recorded several seabird die-offs, involving multiple ...

Increasing ocean temperatures and declining sea ice extent may have meant that more of these plankton and other prey are present in the Chukchi Sea, leading the bowheads to change their migrations.

In the Chukchi Sea northwest of Alaska this month, which should be brimming with floes, its limits likely won’t be tested. University of Washington researchers left Nome on Nov. 7 on the 261 ...

A polar bear walks on ice after pulling iself out of the Chukchi Sea on June 14, 2014. Even though the Chukchi Sea polar bear population has fared better than others in the rapidly warming Arctic ...

In the past 30 years, plankton-eating baleen whales–humpbacks, fins and minkes–have begun to venture into parts of the Arctic such as the Chukchi Sea, between Alaska and Siberia, where sea ice ...

Polar bears roaming the ice and swimming the waters of the Chukchi Sea have become increasingly exposed over the past decades to a collection of disease pathogens, according to a newly published ...