British Antarctic Survey - Polar Science for a Sustainable Planet

Tiny ocean heroes play a massive role in Southern Ocean carbon storage

A new study in collaboration with BAS scientists reveals for the first time that zooplankton migration contributes significantly to carbon storage in the Southern Ocean – a process currently overlooked …

British Antarctic Survey at the Grand Arcade, Cambridge

On 26 July from 9am-5pm, join the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) at the Grand Arcade shopping centre in Cambridge for the brilliant opportunity to explore polar science close to home. This free event will feature a showcase of some of the work conducted at BAS.

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 …

Iceworld Podcast

Out now, ‘Midwinter nights and southern lights: Antarctic celebrations – with Eloise Saville, David Reid, and Charlotte Rayner’ – a conversation across three of the UK’s over-wintering research stations as …