Impact of Holocene environmental change on the evolutionary ecology of an Arctic top predator
Abstract The Arctic is among the most climatically sensitive environments on Earth, and the disappearance of multiyear sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is predicted within decades. As apex predators, polar bears are sentinel species for addressing the impact of…
The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 30 October, 2023
Russia Plans to Build a Science Centre in Svalbard with New International Partners As reported by The Barents Observer on October 30, Russia has announced its plans to build a new science centre in the former coal-mining town of Pyramiden in Svalbard….
The world’s boreal forests may be shrinking as climate change pushes them northward
Earth’s boreal forests circle our planet’s far northern reaches, just south of the Arctic’s treeless tundra. If the planet wears an Arctic ice cap, then the boreal forests are a loose-knit headband wrapped around its ears, covering large portions of Alaska, Canada,…
The long Arctic winter sets in
As the long Arctic winter sets in, sea ice extent has increased at a faster than average pace. By the end of October, the ice cover had reached the Siberian coast, while open water persisted along the coasts of the…