Arctic ocean

Amidst the recent troubling news that Shell Oil has received conditional approval to drill in Arctic waters, a separate, critical victory for the larger Arctic ecosystem was overshadowed.

Photo about Winter in the Arctic - Arctic Ocean - ice in the sea. Image of landscape, season, winter - 19674149

The Barents Sea, Laptev Sea, and the Kara Sea are some of the marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean.

Road Trip to the Arctic Ocean

While the Arctic Ocean is largely a carbon sink, researchers find parts are also a source of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Arctic Ocean, smallest of the world’s oceans, centering approximately on the North Pole. The Arctic Ocean and its marginal seas are the least-known basins and bodies of water in the world ocean as a result of their remoteness, hostile weather, and perennial or seasonal ice cover.

The Arctic Ocean is a small, shallow ocean on the North Pole. It encompasses an area of approximately 5.427 million square miles.

arctic ice

Day 88. Source: Robert B. Dunbar #365daysoutdoors #day88 #antartica Re-post by Hold With Hope

The Arctic, the Kapitan Khlebnikov, eighteen days and a bunch of different personalities with no wi-fi: here starts the adventure.I loved capturing with my Leica camera how the environment was shaping, completely natural shapes far from human activity a…