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British Antarctic Survey attends Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting

A team from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is attending this year’s Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM), a diplomatic forum to discuss the governance and environmental protection of Antarctica. Every June …

Study challenges recent claims about rapid Antarctic “greening”

A new study challenges recent claims about dramatic “greening” in Antarctica and how this conflicts with decades of field-based ecological knowledge. The new opinion article ‘Is Antarctica Greening?’, published in …

A first for RRS Sir David Attenborough: science in the dark

Professor Mike Meredith is an oceanographer at British Antarctic Survey. He concludes a first of its kind science cruise on the RRS Sir David Attenborough conducting research in the polar …

End of season milestone: Discovery Building lights the way forward

As the 2024/25 Antarctic construction season comes to a close, the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) marks a crucial milestone in the modernisation of Rothera Research Station, as the Discovery Building …

Iceworld Podcast

Out now, ‘Rothera at 50 – with Rod Arnold, Alysa Fisher, Matt Hughes and Aurelia Reichardt’ – a portrait of Rothera Research Station past and present, through the reflections and …

The last dance of the wandering albatross?

From pink spray paint to light-as-a-feather GPS loggers: the world of albatross tracking has come a long way in the past six decades. But one thing has sadly remained the …