A new method of tracking the dietary habits and contaminant exposure of animals in Arctic marine ecosystems is providing critical insights as climate change reshapes the region's food web.

Some animals perceive colors beyond human ... Reindeer can see ultraviolet light, which helps them spot predators and food in the snow-covered Arctic, where UV light enhances contrast.

This threatens massive losses in crop and seafood production over the coming decades that could mean food shortages for hundreds ... and freshwater algae by 7% to 12%. The authors calculated ...

Sea ice that covers the Arctic plays a fundamental role in the region's ecosystem — for instance impacting the way animals breed and find food ... with the Nimbus-7 satellite.

Named Fram2 in deference to the ship “Fram” built in Norway that helped explorers get to the Arctic and Antarctica ... tiny plants and algae that sustain the marine food web, as well as clouds and ...

From the tiny, silly-looking sun bear to the iconic polar bear, these animals are specially adapted ... and stand about 9 feet (2.7 meters) tall on their hind legs. The heaviest recorded polar ...

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With the Arctic warming four times faster than ... increases the rate of death of planktonic animals essential to marine food webs and causes significant malformation in seabed animals.