内容摘要：Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to journalists after his phone talks with U.S. President Donald Trump at the Sirius Park of Science and Art outside Sochi, Russia, on Monday, May 19, 2025. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to journalists after his phone talks with U.S. President Donald Trump at the Sirius Park of Science and Art outside Sochi, Russia, on Monday, May 19, 2025. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

The sun rises over the tundra, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, near Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)It’s not just polar bears.

University of Washington’s Laidre said some scientists think the smallest water zooplankton called copepods are the most important animals in the Arctic. They’re fat heavy and the staple of bowhead whales.But copepods live on the smaller plant plankton that’s changing. The timing of when copepods can prosper is changing and new species are moving in, “and they are not as lipid rich,” Laidre said.“It’s not that nothing lives out there,” York says while gazing on the Bay. “It’s that the things that are living in the North are changing and looking a lot more like the South.”

What’s happening in the Hudson Bay is a preview of what will hit further north, Stroeve said.An ice scientist, Stroeve says there is just something about polar bears that is so special.

“It really just makes you so happy to see them, to see an animal living in such a harsh environment,” Stroeve said. “And somehow they have survived. And are we going to make it so that they can’t survive? That makes me sad.’'

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dialed up the thermostat and turbocharged the odds of this month’s killer heat that has been, a new flash study found.