A group of researchers are currently in Canada’s Arctic Archipelago studying seaweed, with a view to how it can help track the impacts of climate change over time. “Seaweed species that live in the Arctic are really adapted to cold temperatures and they actually can’t survive when the water gets warmer. So studying Arctic seaweed definitely has the potential to find new things, either new species, or new records or new invasive species. “Most people are aware of the kelp forests like the famous ones in California, but in the Arctic in Canada, we also have kelp forests. “That’s partly what we’re looking for in Cambridge Bay and in the western Arctic, to find out if there’s really dense kelp forests here.

Source: CBC News September 09, 2022 21:21 UTC