For years, scientists thought that melting Arctic sea ice would be, in one sense at least, good for ocean life.
More open water means more sunlight penetrating the surface, which means more photosynthesis, which means more phytoplankton. And more plankton leads to more fish, more seabirds, and more whales.
The loss of ice was devastating, but the thinking was that the ocean would partly compensate by becoming more productive.
A new study says that’s not how it played…
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