What climate change is doing to the Arctic Ocean

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 March What climate change is doing to the Arctic Ocean What climate change is doing to the Arctic Ocean 10/03/2021 | 3 MINS This article by Daniel Merino and Gemma Ware, features Dr Karen Filbee-Dexter from LITΓÇÖs School of Biological Sciences and originally appeared in The Conversation on 4 March 2021. In this weekΓÇÖs episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, two experts explain how melting ice in the far north is bringing more light to the Arctic Ocean and what this means for the species that live there. And we hear from a team of archaeologists on their new research in TanzaniaΓÇÖs Olduvai Gorge that found evidence of just how adaptable early humans were to the changing environment. Every summer, the sea ice in the Arctic melts ΓÇô but itΓÇÖs melting more and more each year. In September 2020, the ice covered 3.74 million square kilometres in the Arctic. That might sound like a lot, but it was actually the second smallest measurement ever ΓÇô and roughly half of what was measured in 1980. This dramatic loss is because the Arctic is warming

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 March What climate change is doing to the Arctic Ocean What climate change is doing to the Arctic Ocean 10/03/2021 | 3 MINS This article by Daniel Merino and Gemma Ware, features Dr Karen Filbee-Dexter from LITΓÇÖs School of Biological Sciences and originally appeared in The Conversation on 4 March 2021.

In this weekΓÇÖs episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, two experts explain how melting ice in the far north is bringing more light to the Arctic Ocean and what this means for the species that live there.

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