Tweet from @tradewindsnews

@tradewindsnews: Bulker grounds on reef: Signs of oil leak detected from Japan's Double Prosperity off the Philippines. http://bit.ly/k5UiYY

IFREMER - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea

IFREMER - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea

20 year study finds major changes in Southern Ocean plankton :: Australian Antarctic Division

20 year study finds major changes in Southern Ocean plankton :: Australian Antarctic Division

Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts and Islands

Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts and Islands

Polar Art

Sidney Nolan's Antarctic Paintings on Display at the Polar Museum in Cambridge
More http://j.mp/9jBcTW

Arctic Sea Ice decline: the changing face of a region in pictures - Telegraph

Arctic Sea Ice decline: the changing face of a region in pictures - Telegraph

Tweet from @sciencemuseum

An imaginary trek from pole to pole accompanied by Franklin and JC Ross & aided by historic objects. http://budurl.com/polar

Taking molecular snaps of ancient crops : Nature News

Taking molecular snaps of ancient crops : Nature News http://j.mp/c6y3vh

Tweet from @oceanexplorer

The Aquarius, America's "Inner Space Station" scientist investigating nitrogen cycling and sponge ecology. Live Webcam http://go.usa.gov/3lI

Tweet from @esa

#LivingPlanet Image of the day: Animations of Antarctica and Greenland show thinning #icesheets. #space #climate http://bit.ly/bzOuiz

Deep Sea Volcanic Vents

NOC has discovered "black smokers" at 5000m depth in the Cayman Trough.

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

http://tiny.cc/mF3RR

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

Article

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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