Barents Sea
2022 JUN 18
Preliminary >
Geography > Places in news > Places in news
Why in news?
- According to a study, it is stated that parts of the Arctic region near Norway are warming at as much as seven times the rate of warming in the rest of the world.
- The region around the northern Barents Sea has been warming two to two-and-a-half times the average warming of the Arctic region and five to seven times the warming in the rest of the world.
- Such intense warming has never been observed in the Arctic region before. This is leading to the phenomenon of Atlantification.
About Barents Sea:
|
Atlantification:
Scientists have discovered ‘hotspots’ where some parts of the Barents Sea have started to closely resemble the Atlantic.
This phenomenon has been termed Atlantification.
|
- The Barents Sea borders the Norwegian and Greenland Sea in the west, the Arctic Sea in the north and the Kara Sea in the east.
- The Barents Sea is divided between Russia and Norway as defined by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
PRACTICE QUESTION:
Barents Sea, widely discussed in news, is located in:
(a) Indian Ocean
(b) Pacific Ocean
(c) Atlantic Ocean
(d) Arctic Ocean
D
">Answer
