9 articles
A Coastal Atlas guide to Russia's Murman Coast, the ice-free Arctic shore warmed by the Gulf Stream, where kelp forests grow far past the polar circle.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Sea ice forms, grows and melts on the ocean itself, reshaping light, salt and circulation. How it forms, why algae bloom under it, and what its retreat means for kelp.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
A regional guide to seaweed farming in Arctic and subarctic waters: compressed growing windows, midnight-sun growth, ice risk, cold-adapted kelps and northern markets.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Senja and Norway's Barents coast grow clear-water Arctic kelp patrolled by orcas. A regional guide to the kelp, cod and whales of the high north.
Tom Okafor ·
A semi-enclosed sea in northwest Russia where kelp grows beneath months of ice, fed by Arctic rivers and Atlantic tides — one of Earth's most unusual kelp ecosystems.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Sieve kelp (Agarum clathratum) wears a blade full of holes nobody has fully explained — biology of this Arctic kelp and the riddle of the holes.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Meet the common eider: the northern sea duck that dives for mussels in the kelp shallows, crushes shells whole and gave its down to a centuries-old harvest.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
How polar kelp survives months of darkness: the physiology of Arctic forests, light under sea ice, carbohydrate hoarding and the mad sprint of spring.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
The Arctic's first bloom happens in the dark, inside the sea ice. How sympagic algae prime the polar food web — and why thinning ice changes it all.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·