An international team of researchers confirms that increased global temperature and sea-ice loss have prompted drastic changes in the western Arctic Ocean. For the study, scientists used 20 years of data collected between 1994-2017 by researchers across the United States, China, Japan, and Canada. The Arctic Ocean has been deeply affected by climate change and now scientists suspect that the Chukchi Sea will become a larger carbon sink in the future and affect the deep-ocean carbon cycle and ecosystem. The findings could also help earth systems modelers to foretell global adjustments to the carbon cycle, and the ocean’s biology and water chemistry.
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