Antarctica

WWF director of species conservation reports from her amazing journey by boat to Antarctica with stops along the way at several remote islands that serve as natural habitats for dozens of animals. Amazing accounts of penguins, whales birds and other critters hearty enough to live at the ends of the earth. Good to know WWF isn't afraid to get their hands dirty... err frozen in seeing how Antarctic wildlife is faring.

Very nice photos and a look back at the early Antarctic expeditions.

"Americans can make a difference in the fate of the penguin population by leaving the car at home and taking a motorcoach," Pantuso said. "Motorcoaches reduce congestion and pollution by taking more than 425 million cars off the road each year. Coaches provide the same congestion mitigation benefits as transit buses in that we have the capacity to take up to 55 cars, per coach, off the road at one time."

Just what the world needs: the UK is planning to claim sovereign rights over a vast area of the remote seabed off Antarctica - in defiance of the spirit of the 1959 Antarctic treaty.

Greenpeace have launched the Great Whale Trail, following the migration of humpback whales from the warm tropical waters of the South Pacific, where they breed, to the icy Southern Ocean around Antarctica, where they feed. And they're doing it via satellite tracking and Google Maps. Nifty.