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Nature 448, 642-643 (9 August 2007) | doi:10.1038/448642a; Published online 8 August 2007

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Oceanography: Steaming ahead

K. S. Jayaraman1

  1. K. S. Jayaraman writes for Nature from Bangalore.

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India's new Ministry of Earth Sciences is at the helm of ambitious plans to advance deep-sea and polar research. K. S. Jayaraman reports.

India, despite being the only country with an ocean named after it, has not always been a global driving force in the field of oceanography, with most of its research focused on the seas close to its shores. Now Indian researchers are pushing beyond this traditional base, with a $100-million-a-year drive deeper into their own waters and farther afield to the poles (see 'Push for the poles').