Arctic sea ice ‘megabloom’ tied to climate change
Thursday, June 7, 2012 - 18:30
in Earth & Climate
Experts were shocked to find a thick, 60-mile-long "phytoplankton megabloom" under Arctic sea ice, announcing in a study Thursday that ice made thinner by warming temperatures has, for now at least, created ideal conditions for the microscopic, single-cell plants to flourish.