Nowadays, interest in wildlife tourism has been growing very fast. The search for new and varied experiences from wildlife tourism has been expanding into new areas, new species and through…
Updated: 2 Apr. 2019 Killer whales (Orcinus orca) in the Arctic are known to avoid ice, only migrating from North Atlantic waters up to the Arctic ocean in the summer,…
Climate change leads to poleward movements of marine species. The Arctic is more sensitive to these changes due to the twice as fast increasing in air temperatures compared to the…
The importance of interactions between physical and social sciences Increased climate change in the Arctic has already led to changes in the interactions between its inhabitants and the available natural…
In the past few years we have witnessed a set of changes in the planet’s climate, with a particular emphasis in the Arctic region. The increase in average temperatures unleashed the…
When sea ice forms, eliminates and concentrates particles from the water column, staying retained in the ice until it melts. Small plastics fragments (<5mm of diamenter), known as “microplastics” are…
Global warming, one of the most troubling climate change has been associated with several changes in physiology and species distribution. In the Arctic, the increase of the average annual temperature…
A study published in 2013 has focused on the comparison of the sensitivity of the polar oceans to anthropogenic acidification [1]. This designation - acidification - constitutes a pH decreasing,…