Melting sea ice changes not only how much light enters the ocean, but also its color, disrupting marine photosynthesis and ...

Without an ice layer on the ocean's surface, the light penetrating the waters changes, affecting the type of algae and ...

As global warming melts more sea ice in the polar regions, the light that enters the ocean is not just increasing in ...

Even though it’s a tiny change, the algae that grows on patches of ice in Antarctica alters the albedo — or the ice's reflectivity — enough to make the planet warm even faster. "When [the ...

The Arctic is changing – and not just in the ways you might think. Once covered in thick, bright sea ice, the region is now ...

The bottom of a cut-out block of 2 m thick ice covered with ice algae, placed atop the sea ice of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. The disappearance of sea ice in polar regions due to global warming not ...

Melting polar ice narrows the light spectrum underwater, favoring blue-tuned algae and disrupting the ocean food web.