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Arctic expedition uncovers deep-sea microbes that may harbor the next generation of antibiotics

Analysis of samples from an expedition to the Arctic Ocean suggest that marine microbes could be a promising new source of antibiotics.

LiveScience

Accepting uncertainty in sustainable fisheries is essential in a rapidly changing Arctic

Climate change is making it almost impossible to decide how much, where and what to sustainably fish as the fate of future fisheries is becoming increasingly uncertain. This is leading to a slow process or inaction in adapting fisheries and their management to climate change.

The Conversation

Melting Ice No Guarantee Of Smooth Sailing In Fabled Arctic Crossing: Study

Melting sea ice in the fast-warming Arctic Ocean is not making it easier for sailors to navigate a legendary shortcut between Europe and Asia despite popular belief, scientists said Thursday.

International Business Times

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Chinese scientists are increasingly shaping the future of the Arctic amid China’s rising presence

Scientists are playing a significant role in the Arctic region, helping to educate the world about its unique ecosystem along with the ongoing geopolitical positioning by Arctic and non-Arctic states.

The Conversation

Saints TE Jimmy Graham part of rowing event across Arctic Ocean in 2025

Jimmy Graham is part of a team that will row across the Arctic Ocean in 2025

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‘Spoon worms lick the seabed with a metre-long tongue’: a voyage into a vanishing Arctic world

Sea ice around the north pole is disappearing at an alarming rate. A group of scientists went on a mission to investigate the effects of the climate crisis on the region

The Guardian - UK

Norway Continues To Open Arctic Ocean Seabed For Mining Despite Environmental Warnings

Norway has been slammed for ignoring environmental groups and opening the Arctic Ocean seabed for mineral exploration.

International Business Times UK

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Explained | Arctic Ocean could be ice-free in summer by 2030s, say scientists

Considerable effort has been invested in determining when the Arctic Ocean might first become ice-free in summer, a.k.a. a “blue ocean event” and defined as when the sea ice area drops below 1 million sq. km. We don’t know exactly when the last blue ocean event happened, but one in…

The Hindu

Arctic Ocean could be ice-free in summer by 2030s, say scientists – this would have global, damaging and dangerous consequences

The Arctic Ocean could be ice-free in summer by the 2030s, even if we do a good job of reducing emissions between now and then. That’s the worrying conclusion of a new study in Nature Communications.

The Conversation

As Biden weighs the Willow oil project, he blocks other Alaska drilling

The move to limit oil drilling in 16 million acres in Alaska and the Arctic Ocean comes as regulators prepare to decide on the Willow project, a controversial plan pushed by ConocoPhillips.

WEKU

Putin discusses Russia's claim to giant chunk of Arctic Ocean seabed

President Vladimir Putin held talks on Friday with top security officials about the status of Russia's efforts to legally expand the outer boundaries of its continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean.

Reuters

Analysis-Protecting 30% of the planet to save nature is not as simple as it sounds

From the lush Amazon rainforest to the frigid Arctic Ocean, the world's landscapes — and all the wildlife they contain — are under threat, and the world needs to set aside a third of all land and sea territories to save them, U.N. experts say.

Reuters

Santa visit brings joy to a frosty Alaska Inupiaq village

Santa and Mrs. Claus left Rudolph at home to catch a ride recently on an Alaska Air National Guard cargo plane to visit the Inupiac village of Nuiqsut, about 30 miles south of the Arctic Ocean

The Independent UK

Oldest DNA on record - 2 million years - reveals Greenland's lost world

Scientists have identified DNA from animals, plants and microbes dating to about 2 million years ago - the oldest on record by far - from sediment at Greenland's northernmost point dug up around the mouth of an Arctic Ocean fjord, revealing an amazing lost world at this remote frontier.

Reuters

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The Guardian - UK

Weatherwatch: ‘spicier’ Arctic Ocean is causing alarm

Experts say warmer, saltier water caused by rising temperatures may have profound impact on sea ice

360info

The ecological crisis in the Arctic Ocean

Sea ice holds the key to understanding the entire Arctic marine ecosystem. But it’s melting faster than we can unravel its complexity.

Tribune News Service

Composer Lei Liang and Scripps oceanographers take deep dive in Arctic to create game-changing 'Six Seasons'

SAN DIEGO — Groundbreaking composer Lei Liang has never been to the Arctic or to its Chukchi Sea, which sits between Alaska and Siberia. But that imposing 240,000-square-mile body of water's beneath-the-surface sounds not only inspired his provocative new work, "Six Seasons," they are an intrinsic and very audible part…

Dynamite News

Link between ocean acidification and fast-melting Arctic ice discovered by scientists

Washington After discovering acidity levels increasing three to four times faster in the western region of the Arctic Ocean than in any ocean waters elsewhere, an international team of researchers has sounded new alarm bells. Read more on Dynamite News:

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The Guardian - UK

Arctic Ocean acidifying up to four times as fast as other oceans, study finds

Scientists ‘shocked’ by rate of change as rapid sea-ice melt drives absorption of CO2 – with ‘huge implications’ for Arctic sea life

Wales Online

Office manager claims he saw alien spaceship above Arctic Ocean - others see MJ

The thrilled 32-year-old ended up arguing with people who thought it was 'Jesus ascending'

Zenger

Giant Sponge Gardens Spotted On Extinct Volcanoes In The Arctic Ocean

Scientists have documented sponges under the sea that flourish on detritus left by ancient animals.

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