Now part of Halfar’s research group studying changes in sea ice cover in northern Labrador, Dias and her co-researchers are ...

Microbes turn the underside of the sea ice brown or green ... New experiments reveal how these algae, the base of the food web in polar environments, adjust to seasonal changes in temperature ...

Sea-ice is also hugely important for life at the poles. In the Antarctic, the algae that cling to the ice are a source of food for the small crustaceans known as krill, which are a basic food ...

Biologists searched for ice algae, which look like dirt and live on the underside of the ice and in the channels of trapped brine left after newly formed sea ice expels salt. In a few weeks ...

Mari Granström, a biochemist, sources microalgae from the Baltic Sea and seaweed from the Caribbean ... also called blue-green algae, suddenly multiply rapidly, stretching out on top of the ...

This surprising result demonstrates the algae’s ability to perform photosynthesis ... Despite the snow-covered sea ice blocking most of the sunlight, the microalgae managed to use the very ...

As the planet heats up, the summer sea ice and all the superbly adapted life it supports—the bears, the seals, the walruses, the whales, the Arctic cod, the crustaceans, the ice algae—may well ...

Climate change could start causing significant algae blooms in the Arctic, as more sunlight reaches the plants lurking in the ...

Antarctica is turning green as plants take over parts of the icy landscape. The change is happening far faster than expected, ...

The findings, published Friday in Nature Geoscience, based on a meticulous analysis of Landsat images from 1986 to 2021, show ...

For years, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter — a spacecraft circling the Red Planet — has seen white material lining dry ...

WATCH: Nation’s top weather and climate service faces potential political storm When the sea ice melts earlier it warms the overall water temperature and it changes algae that blooms ...