The polar environments possess extreme light conditions, with midnight sun periods and polar nights[1]. Zooplankton[2] species have adapted different strategies to survive the polar night, reducing their activity in comparison…
Arctic ecosystems and their species are subject to a wide range of pressures from human activities, including the exposure to complex mixture of pollutants, climate change, and fisheries. The pressures…
With climate change impacts, many species are forced to alter their behaviour and distributions over time, due to the scarcity of natural resources essential for the population’s survival. In some…
Narwhals are cetaceans that inhabit the Arctic Ocean with a very curious particularity: a long tusk that has been the inspiration for many fantastic stories. For example, the existence of…
Nowadays, much is said about climate change and its consequences. For example, the increase in the average global temperature, the appearance of rare and extreme precipitation events, severe droughts, the…
During the 2021 winter, several cold extreme events were noticed, mainly over Asia and North America. However, would this type of events be expected when the global warming, associated with…
Credits: Lars van de Goor Almost all scientists agree that the warming observed since the Industrial Revolution is largely explained by rising atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, and as a result,…
Climate change is affecting almost all regions and ecosystems. Particularly in the Arctic, where rapid sea-ice loss and increasing temperatures are altering the distribution and abundance of low trophic-level organisms,…
At the present time, climate change is an undeniable fact, with global ocean warming and Polar ice melting among the most notable consequences. In this context, the increased temperature in…
Global warming has been the engine that triggered several effects in our planet. One of them is the mean sea level rise that happens when the volume of the ocean…