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Rising sea temperatures, ice-free Arctic summers and a changing marine food chain

Article Published 26 Mar 2009 Last modified 11 May 2021

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The seas, and especially the European ones, are warming up. More likely than not, the Arctic will have ice-free summers well before the end of this century. Fish and plankton are already expanding their geographical distribution further north, and the seasonal cycles of certain species are changing.