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

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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

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.

Amazon Link

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.

Other Links:-
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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Other Links:-

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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International Polar Year

International ReSource Award for sustainable watershed management

More News on USS "Port Royal" Grounding

AP

Divers repair damaged reef

More damage to Port Royal

Clean Coal

Water Scarcity

The information outlines different types of water scarcity as well as its global location and probable causes.

ORCA's Eye-in-the-Sea

Look around on land, and you can see life everywhere. But it’s a different story down in the deep ocean. There are still plenty of animals around, but deeper than about 200 m (660 feet) there’s no light left to see them. Instead, light comes from the sea creatures themselves. More than 90 percent of them give off faint bluish flashes and glows, called bioluminescence, that seem unearthly to visitors from dry land.

A short animation shows how Eye-in-the-Sea will arrive and start work at MARS [2 Mb Quicktime file courtesy Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution]

World Water Day 2009

Dumping the Dirty Deed

WATER FOR ALL NEWS
Issue 42, February 2009
Concerted efforts around the globe have made open defecation a dying practice. But it is not dying fast enough. The years between 1990 and 2006 saw only a slight drop from 24% to 18% in the number of people engaged in this practice. This means a staggering 1.2 billion people, most of them in rural areas, still defecate in the open, unaware or unmindful of the health and environmental problems they are creating

A Couple of Eco Games

Stop Disasters
and
ElectroCity

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Preliminary review of adaptation options for climate-sensitive ecosystems and resources

Preliminary review of adaptation options for climate-sensitive ecosystems and resources. A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research.

Polar Presentation Images

A photographic testimony of the International Polar Year 2007-2008 from the WMO

Invasion of the the Red Lionfish (Pterois volitans)

Interesting article about the Red Lionfish incursion onto new areas of reefs. Ref: Laws of Necessity Blog

More from "Animal Diversity Web"

US Navy to pay for reef damage

The state of Hawaii plans to ask the Navy to reimburse it for the cost of repairing the coral reef damaged when the cruiser Port Royal ran aground Feb. 5.
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6 Different Ways the Waves & Tides Can Generate Electricity

This link takes you to a slide show of various graphics showing way of power generation through the use of oceans.
Links to TreeHugger

Department of Ocean Development (India) to instal Wind turbine at Antarctic Base

Currently undergoing tests at it's National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR) at Sada, Vasco in Goa is the British built 6KW wind turbine destined for India's Maitri' station in Antarctica.
The turbine once installed is expected to reduce fuel running costs at the base by at least half.
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Map of the Arctic

The Catlin Arctic Ice Thickness Survey

The Catlin 3 person team started their epic 1000km treck across the Arctic to the North Pole to measure the thickness of the sea ice along the route.
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The Official Blog here...

The State of the Reef

On this page, you can see some possible outcomes for parts of the Great Barrier Reef of different climate change scenarios resulting from an increase in sea surface temperature, taking into account the possible adaptability of coral.

USS 'Port Royal' runs aground on Reef

Honolulu.
A guided misile cruiser, the USS 'Port Royal', ran aground off Honolulu and was finally floated off after three and half days stuck on the reef.
Considerable damage to both reef and ship.

Ice Bound Dolphin Pod Rescued

Bi Polar edits

Fantastic photographs here...

The World's hottest water

The hottest known water on Earth has been discovered issuing from black smokers deep in the Atlantic Ocean (Footage courtesy of MARUM/Andrea Koschinsky)

Cold Water Coral

We often hear tropical corals are the rainforests of the oceans. But there are more coral species in deep, cold waters than shallow warm waters. Murray Roberts describes plans to explore these little-known habitats.

The US Coral Reef Task Force

The United States Coral Reef Task Force (USCRTF) was established in 1998 by Presidential Executive Order to lead U.S. efforts to preserve and protect coral reef ecosystems. The USCRTF includes leaders of 12 Federal agencies, seven U.S. States, Territories, Commonwealths, and three Freely Associated States. The USCRTF helps build partnerships, strategies, and support for on-the-ground action to conserve coral reefs. (more....)

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