Global Warming in Arctic Ocean May Mean Less Food

(AXcess News) Reno, NV - A warmer Arctic Ocean may mean less food for the birds, fish, and baleen whales and be a significant detriment to that fragile and interconnected polar ecosystem, and that doesn't bode well for other ocean ecosystems in the future.

That's the word from University of Miami Rosenstiel School's Dr. Sharon Smith who spoke on "Potentially Dramatic Changes in the Pelagic Ecosystems of the Marginal Seas of the Arctic Ocean due to Anthropogenic Warming," Monday afternoon at the American Geophysical Union's 2006 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu.