What Scientists Are Seeing Over Antarctica

NASA’s Operation IceBridge has launched its Antarctic 2012 campaign, flying high-priority missions measuring polar ice from a base of operations at the tip of Patagonia on the Strait of Magellan. They have also made a return visit to the Pine Island Glacier, the site of last year’s discovery of a massive rift in the ice.

Arctic Report Card 2012

The Arctic Report Card: Tracking recent environmental changes, with 20 essays on different aspects of the environment, by a international team of 141 scientists from 15 different countries.  

More information and PDF of entire report at http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard

Operation Iceberg - Episode 1 - BBC Two

Incredible footage from Greenland not to be missed as this team of scientists and researchers scale giant glaciers and make new discoveries.

Time Travel in the Alaskan Arctic

More info @ FrontierScientists.com. Archaeologist Bill Hedman and Colorado teacher, Karl Horeis relay the marvels of archaeology in Arctic Alaska.

Antarctic molluscs 'switch sex'

Antarctic bivalves have surprised scientists who have discovered that the animals switch sex. Their hermaphrodite nature had remained unknown until they were studied by scientists from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.

By Ella DaviesReporter, BBC Nature

Read on for more fascinating biology in the Antarctic!

Meet Iceberg, The Rare White Killer Whale Filmed For The First Time 

It was one of the most breakthrough moments in the history of science when Russian scientists’ got an eye of a pure white six-foot fin breaking the surface of the water at Russia’s Kammchatka Peninsula.

READ ON!

Thanks @Ocean_Voice_

Researchers to document all Arctic species

Take note of this important study underway.

Scientists believe the Arctic is home to about 20,000 species, and an international team of researchers is working to pin that number down by documenting all of the Arctic’s life forms. 

@Greenpeace

Thanks for the tweet @DianeN56

Shape Of Life Origins (PBS Documentary)

A revolutionary eight-part television series that reveals the dramatic rise of the animal kingdom through the breakthroughs of scientific discovery.

For the first time ever, scientists believe they have gathered substantial evidence that points to a single animal group of creatures that gave rise to all animals, including humans.  ”Animal Eve” is a group of creatures that still exist: the sponges. Sponges, members of the phylum Porifera, are considered the oldest living animal phylum.