NEWS STORY: Awards to BAS staff
Polar medals awarded to three BAS staff Three British Antarctic Survey staff have been honoured with the Polar Medal. The Queen approved the awards for outstanding achievement and service to […]
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NEWS STORY: Queen Elizabeth land
Read more of: NEWS STORY: Queen Elizabeth landUK names part of Antarctica in honour of the Queen The Foreign Secretary, William Hague, has announced that the southern part of British Antarctic Territory has been named Queen Elizabeth […]
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NEWS STORY: Sea level rise calculated
Read more of: NEWS STORY: Sea level rise calculatedBritish Antarctic Survey researchers part of landmark study to improve projections for future sea level An international team of satellite experts including researchers at British Antarctic Survey has produced the […]
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NEWS STORY: Celebrating Antarctica Day
Read more of: NEWS STORY: Celebrating Antarctica DayAntarctica Day was inaugurated in 2010 to celebrate the 1st December 1959 signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which was adopted “with the interests of science and the progress of all […]
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NEWS STORY: Agreement signed with Chile
Read more of: NEWS STORY: Agreement signed with ChileBritish Antarctic Survey and Chilean Antarctic Institute sign agreement to strengthen science cooperation This month Prime Minister David Cameron and Foreign Secretary, William Hague welcomed a joint commitment to partner […]
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Outcome of NERC Council meeting to consider proposal to merge BAS and NOC
Read more of: Outcome of NERC Council meeting to consider proposal to merge BAS and NOCStatement made this morning by NERC on the proposal to merge BAS and the National Oceanography Centre
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NEWS STORY: Surfaces of glaciers studied
Read more of: NEWS STORY: Surfaces of glaciers studiedThe effects of microbial life on glaciers and ice sheets Around 10% of the Earth’s surface is covered by glacial ice (glaciers and ice sheets), some of which melt as […]
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NEWS STORY: Insights into icebergs
Read more of: NEWS STORY: Insights into icebergsScientists discover new mechanism at work breaking-up icebergs An international team of scientists has discovered a previously unknown mechanism by which large tabular icebergs break up out at sea as […]
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Antarctic Reception with Neil Carmichael MP at House of Commons
Read more of: Antarctic Reception with Neil Carmichael MP at House of CommonsOn the 23rd October, Neil Carmichael MP hosted an Antarctic Reception at the House of Commons to promote the Antarctic Bill, which has its second reading in Parliament on the […]
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NEWS STORY: Consultation on merger proposal
Read more of: NEWS STORY: Consultation on merger proposalNERC consultation on proposal to merge BAS and National Oceanography Centre (NOC) The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is undertaking a consultation exercise on a proposal to merge two of […]
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NEWS STORY: BAS involved in NASA mission
Read more of: NEWS STORY: BAS involved in NASA missionBritish Antarctic Survey scientists involved in NASA ‘space weather’ mission WASHINGTON — NASA’s Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP), the first twin-spacecraft mission designed to explore the Earth’s radiation belts, launched […]
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NEWS STORY: Ocean sampling at Rothera
Read more of: NEWS STORY: Ocean sampling at RotheraOcean sampling: Rothera, Antarctic Peninsula: last but not least! Are the World’s oceans all the same, or are they different? OK at the most basic level, we all know that […]