Climate change could start causing significant algae blooms in the Arctic, as more sunlight reaches the plants lurking in the ocean, turning the waters green. A new study has found that more light is ...

Rapid sea ice loss and ocean acidification from climate change are altering the growth and nutritional value of microscopic algae. These algae are an essential food source for fish, krill, and other ...

Duncan's research showed that these changes degrade the composition of sea-ice microalgae. As sea ice thickness and coverage ...

Researchers from the Department of Environmental Science at Aarhus University in Denmark say they have for the first time discovered signs of large viruses living in the snow and ice on the Greenland ...

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 ...

The Arctic is heating faster than any other region on Earth, and scientists now say a newly identified chain reaction in the ...

The bottom of a cut-out block of 2 m thick ice covered with ice algae, placed atop the sea ice of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. The disappearance of sea ice in polar regions due to global warming not ...

Embedded in the sea ice of the arctic are creatures so small, you can't see them with the naked eye. These microalgae convert energy from sunlight into fuel. The arctic ecosystem depends on them. In ...

CLIMATEWIRE | Hordes of giant viruses are living on the world's second-largest body of ice — and may be slowing the impacts of climate change. Scientists announced the discovery in a recent paper on ...

Antarctica faces abrupt, irreversible climate changes as warming nears 1.5 °C, threatening ice, oceans, ecosystems, and ...