Tag: Artic Ice

• Saturday, August 17th 2019 - 01:46 UTC

  July 2019, the hottest on record, and Arctic ice shrank to its lowest, NOAA reports

  

  July 2019 temperatures were the hottest ever recorded globally; the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Thursday, while satellite data showed polar ice shrank to its lowest levels.

• Wednesday, October 14th 2015 - 21:08 UTC

  Billions of juvenile polar cod under the Arctic ice, confirmed by German marine biologists

  

  Using a new net, marine biologists from Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute have, for the first time, been able to catch polar cod directly beneath the Arctic sea ice with a trawl, allowing them to determine their large-scale distribution and origin. This information is of fundamental importance, as polar cod are a major source of food for seals, whales and seabirds in the Arctic.