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Into thin ice

Bow lights show the way as the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy streaks through slim pancake ice in the nighttime Bering Sea. After long, dark winters, sunlight returns to the sea in spring, relaunching a bountiful food chain that goes from algae up to seals, walruses, whales, and polar bears. WHOI biologist Carin Ashjian led…

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