A Critical Arctic Organism Is Now Infested With Microplastics
The smaller a particle is, the more organisms it can get into. Plastics can break down so small that they enter individual cells of either...
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The Arctic’s Permafrost-Obsessed Methane Detectives
at midnight Sun Golf Course in Fairbanks, Alaska, they say you never get the same shot twice. That’s because the Arctic is warming much faster...
These Trees Are Spreading North in Alaska. That’s Not Good
In the summer of 2019, Roman Dial and his friend Brad Meiklejohn hired a single-engine bush plane out of Kotzebue, on the northwest coast of...
Why the Search for Life on Mars Is Happening in Canada’s Arctic
Only the hardiest organisms can thrive in one of the coldest springs on earth. That’s why in the summers of 2017 and 2019, Lyle Whyte...
Huge Sponges Are Eating an Extinct Arctic Ecosystem
Stretching for nearly 80 miles across the seafloor of the central Arctic, the Langseth Ridge is craggy, barren, and generally inhospitable. And it should be:...