Waves crash along the coast of the Barents Sea Franz Aberham/Getty
An entire Arctic ecosystem suddenly started shrinking within the last 10 years and could be gone within another decade. The collapse could be the largest, fastest impact of climate change seen to date.
鈥淚t could happen within the next few years, or within 10 or 20 years,鈥 says lead author of the Institute of Marine Research in Troms酶, Norway. 鈥淲e can鈥檛 say precisely.鈥
The region in question is the Barents Sea, a stretch of ocean covering 1.6 million square kilometres between the Arctic Ocean and the…
