Record warming at the South Pole

The South Pole has warmed at over three times the global rate since 1989, according to a paper published in Nature Climate Change today (29 June 2020). This warming period was …

Space weather monitoring receives funding boost

Space weather research at British Antarctic Survey (BAS) receives a funding boost of around £2M today (Saturday 27 June) from the SWIMMR (Space Weather Instrumentation, Measurement, Modelling and Risk) programme. …

New briefing paper on Arctic change

BAS researchers have contributed to a new briefing paper about the Arctic published this week (25 June 2020). Working with a team at the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London, …

Carrying the PRIDE message to the Polar Regions

Huw Griffiths is a polar research scientist with British Antarctic Survey and helped to establish the Pride in Polar Research network. During June PRIDE month he shares his personal experience …

Late Quaternary sedimentary processes in the central Arctic Ocean inferred from geophysical mapping

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