As the habitat for Arctic wildlife shrinks ... “There’s the potential for a massive scrambling of genes in the whole Arctic Ocean,” Kelly says. “We did a survey of marine mammals and ...

What is an ocean habitat? Ocean habitats are all of the Earth’s oceans: The Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, the Southern, and the Arctic Ocean. Oceans cover about 70% of the Earth’s surface ...

Melting at Record Rates The Arctic is melting at a pace that has alarmed scientists and environmentalists worldwide. This ...

The Arctic Ocean (Figure 1), the smallest of the world's five major oceans, is about 4000km (2500 miles) long and 2400km (1500 miles) wide, about the size of the continental USA. It lies entirely ...

Alaska’s northern frontier and Arctic Ocean waters are teeming with species found in few ... Wildlife Refuge — one of the world's most important wild places and habitat for polar bears, caribou and ...

Each decade around 13% of the ice in the Arctic Ocean is lost, but scientists are ... as well as loss of habitat for wildlife. Stopping the thaw would take an effective global effort to reduce ...