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Video feature: Study of Southern Ocean critical to understanding of climate change .

Whether it's the economics of clean energy, the politics of Washington or claims over the severity of the problem itself, the debate over climate change is loud and crowded. One aspect that often goes overlooked is the Southern Ocean ringing Antarctica at the bottom of the globe. But that, says Jorge Sarmiento, is about to change.

'Insights With Robert Wuthnow' .

Sociologist Robert Wuthnow and his team of researchers interviewed more than 700 people in small towns around the country for a project that offers new insights into where small towns fit in 21st-century America. While their populations are small, these communities continue to play a big role in American life, he says.

Diving robots find that Antarctic seas release surprising amounts of carbon dioxide in winter .

Autonomous floats deployed in the Southern Ocean provide the first comprehensive data to suggest that the open water surrounding Antarctica releases significantly more carbon dioxide in winter than previously thought.

Global atmospheric carbon level may depend primarily on Southern Ocean .

Southern Ocean's role in climate regulation, ocean health is goal of $21 million federal grant .

A six-year, $21 million program by Princeton University and 10 partner institutions will seek to make the importance and health of the Southern Ocean encircling Antarctica better known scientifically and publicly. The Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling program, or SOCCOM, will create a biogeochemical and physical portrait of the ocean using an expanded computational capacity and hundreds of robotic floats deployed around Antarctica.

Understand the past to understand the future: Climate science at Princeton .

Princeton: a half-century at the environmental forefront

'Princeton Orange Bowl' .

The annual Princeton Orange Bowl — or "OJ Game" — is an event in which teams compete to build the best virtual orange juice business.