EurActiv.com - Climate scientist warns about Arctic ice melt | EU - European Information on Climate Change

EurActiv.com - Climate scientist warns about Arctic ice melt | EU - European Information on Climate Change http://bit.ly/8gJM72

First comprehensive review of the state of Antarctica's climate

First comprehensive review of the state of Antarctica's climate

Greenland melting speeds up

http://tiny.cc/melt23

Sponges recycle carbon to give life to coral reefs - dnaindia.com

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Expedition Gauss

The Gauss Expedition (1901 – 1903), was the first German expedition to Antarctica, led by Arctic veteran and geology professor Erich von Drygalski in the ship Gauss.

The Gauss Expedition - Wikipedia

History of Research Ships - Wikipedia

The Gauss Expedition - Cool Antarctic

Antarctica: Contributions to Global Earth Sciences - Google Books

A 100 years of German Antarctic Research - Alfred Wegener Institude

Antarctic and Greenland ice sheet thinning spreads

Extensive dynamic thinning on the margins of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets
Hamish D Pritchard, Robert J Arthern, David G Vaughan & Laura A Edwards
Nature, doi:10.1038/nature08471

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Sea, cells, genes, smells, on the sea shore from PlanetEarth Online

http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/features/story.aspx?id=412

Wilkins Ice Shelf Bridge Breaks

(CNN) -- A large ice shelf is "imminently" close to breaking away from part of the Antarctic Peninsula, scientists said Friday 3rd April 2009.

Protecting the Gulf of Mannar

The Gulf of Mannar is a shallow stretch of water separating India from Sri Lanka. Despite its important ecological and cultural significance as one of South Asia's largest biosphere reserves, the Indian Government is planning to build a shipping channel through the gulf - the Sethusamudram Ship Channel. FIELD lawyers attended the first International meeting of the campaign to protect the Gulf of Mannar.

House & Senate Leaders Support US $250M for Ocean Energy

Leadership in both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate are calling on the Department of Energy (DOE) to allocate US $250 million of the $2.5 billion in stimulus funding for renewable energy research and development to the emerging marine renewable energy industry. The funding would help develop wave, current and tidal energy technologies....

SeaWeb

SeaWeb is a communications-based nonprofit organization that uses social marketing techniques to advance ocean conservation. By raising public awareness, advancing science-based solutions and mobilizing decision-makers around ocean conservation, we are leading voices for a healthy ocean.

The Cryosphere Today

A webspace devoted to the current state
of our cryosphere

See links in Polar Research to the right also

Photographic archives of Scott and Shackleton made freely available online

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GOCE Launch - Mapping Earth's Gravity Like Never Before

Article from redOrbit

Join an Antarctic mission to help save the planet

Polar explorer Robert Swan is searching for young people to join him on a mission to the Antarctic and become the green warriors of tomorrow.

NASA's Antarctica Visualizations

Arctic Sea Ice Decline Video

Energy Implications of Bottled Water

Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI)

A new Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI), centered around high-level political commitments and proactive implementation by governments of the Coral Triangle area, and supported and carried forward by private sector, international agency and civil society (NGO) partners, could provide a major contribution toward safeguarding the region’s marine and coastal biological resources for the sustainable growth and prosperity of current and future generations.

Coral Triangle Map

WWF - Coral Triangle

Wilkins Ice Shelf Observations

With the possible breakaway from the Antarctic Peninsula of the Wilkins Ice Shelf, ESA's ENVISAT is keeping a close look at developements.
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Sea Sick - The Global Ocean in Crisis

Review by Richard Ellis on the above titled book by Alanna Mitchell.

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New Antarctic Fish Species Discovered

A Spanish researcher has discovered a newfound species of fish in an area of the Antarctic Ocean that has not been studied since 1904.

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Un investigador español descubre una nueva especie de pez antártico

The lost world beneath the Antarctic ice

British scientists are about to mount one of the boldest-ever missions, to search for life forms that have survived for possibly millions of years in a frozen "lost world" beneath an ancient ice sheet.
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The Exploration of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth

Antarctic lake may hold life clue

Life - But not as we know it

Antarctic Map

BELARE - The Station was not built in a day!

Teacher notes for the BELgian Antarctic Research Expeditions.
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Grounding of USS 'Port Royal' - Update

The price tag of the grounding of the USS Port Royal in Hawaiian waters last month proves just how costly the mistake was.

Seven new species of coral identified

Scientists yesterday announced they have identified seven new species of bamboo coral in the deep waters of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument.

Life in the Treetops

A New Era of Scientific Exploration in
the World’s Forest Canopies
By
Andrew Mitchell
Director, Global Canopy Programme

Climate Change Ad.

Prosecutions and Accountability

IPY: from fuel cuts to the deep-sea octopus

Report from David Carlson of evironmentalresearchweb.org






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