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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

New research by an international team of scientists explains what's behind a stalled trend in Arctic Ocean sea ice loss since 2007. The findings indicate that stronger declines in sea ice will ...

Arctic ocean carbon cycle remains a mystery Jeremy Mathis, ... But by the time it reaches the Canada Basin, Cai said, marine life has gobbled up much of the nutrient content.

Arctic sea ice cover for 2019 reached its lowest on Sept 18. At 1.6 million square miles (4 million square km), this coverage tied with 2007 and 2016 as the second lowest since the 1970s, NASA ...

As the Arctic warms, sea ice born near Russia is failing to reach the open ocean. ... "We need to better understand the life cycle of these biogeochemical components," he said.

This past summer in the Arctic was the warmest since 1900, leading to early snowmelt and diminished sea ice. ... in both the ocean and freshwater ecosystems central to the salmon life-cycle. ...

The Arctic is experiencing a vast melting of sea ice. But something is happening under the ice that scientists don’t fully understand.