Study Identifies which Marine Mammals are Most at Risk from Increased Arctic Ship Traffic

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Study Identifies which Marine Mammals are Most at Risk from Increased Arctic Ship Traffic

In August 2016, the first large cruise ship traveled through the Northwest Passage, the northern waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The following year, the first ship without an icebreaker plied the Northern Sea Route, a path along Russia’s Arctic coast that was, until recently, impassable by unescorted commercial vessels. In recent decades parts of the Arctic seas […]

Billions of Juvenile Fish under the Arctic Sea Ice

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Billions of Juvenile Fish under the Arctic Sea Ice

Using a new net, marine biologists from the 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 […]