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Boing Boing contributor Maggie Koerth-Baker has profiled Paul Morin, director of the Antarctic Geospatial Information Center—a small research group dedicated to using data collected on Antarctica to improve research efforts across all fields....

Oceanographic researchers photographed a strange object, 3 miles beneath the waves.

In 1964, while trolling the depths to photograph the ocean floor, the crew of the oceanographic research ship USNS Eltanin made a startling discovery in the waters near Antarctica.

Photo via Andrew Evans of the National Geographic

King Penguins are notorious for their prim, tuxedoed appearance--but a recently discovered all-black penguin seems unafraid to defy conve

Members of the goup Sea Shepherd prepare to launch acid at a whaling ship.

webcam image: Antarctica New Zealand

It may be only one megawatt in size and consist of three turbines, but the Ross Island wind farm, built and owned by Meridian Energy can now claim to be

British Antarctic Survey camp on Pine Island Glacier. Photo: Wikipedia.

A quick update on the state of sea level rise projections. As you can tell from the title, it's not so good.

From the news that a Brazilian Federal Highway Police Officer broke animal protection laws when he shot and killed a bull on a highway road to a new study refuting one of the Japanese whaling industry's justifications for violating the international ban on whaling, a lot happened this week in green.

Photo by Eva Jacobus

Last November, TreeHugger experienced first-hand the magnificent scale of Antarctica, with its towering peaks of rock and snow and vast seas that can barely be done justice by photographs; the sense of remoteness and isolation is hard to duplicate looking at images back home.

Photo: (JoAnne McArthur/Sea Shepherd Conservation Society)

The other day we covered (with video) the southern ocean collision when a Japanese whaling vessel cut clean through the bow of the Ady Gil, a trimaran from anti-whale group, Sea Shepherd.

Photo: Sea Shepherd

Sea Shepherd Boat Sinking
Neither the kevlar reinforcing, nor a radar deflecting paint job, was enough to protect the Ady Gil trimaran from what Sea Shepherd are calling "an unprovoked attack," when the Japanese security ship Shonan Maru No.