Maps reveal landscape beneath Antarctica’s weak underbelly
A UK team of researchers has produced high-resolution maps of the bed beneath a major glacier in West Antarctica, which will help them predict future sea-level rise from this region. […]
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New Antarctic heat map reveals sub-ice hotspots
Read more of: New Antarctic heat map reveals sub-ice hotspotsAn international team of scientists, led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), has produced a new map showing how much heat from the Earth’s interior is reaching the base of the […]
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Halley Research Station will not winter in 2018
Read more of: Halley Research Station will not winter in 2018British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has decided, for safety reasons, that it will close its Halley VI Research Station during the 2018 Antarctic winter. This will be the second time that […]
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‘Scars’ left by icebergs record West Antarctic ice retreat
Read more of: ‘Scars’ left by icebergs record West Antarctic ice retreatThousands of marks on the Antarctic seafloor, caused by icebergs which broke free from glaciers more than ten thousand years ago, show how part of the Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated […]
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Scientists to visit hidden Antarctic ecosystem after giant iceberg calving
Read more of: Scientists to visit hidden Antarctic ecosystem after giant iceberg calvingA team of scientists, led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), is planning an urgent mission to investigate a mysterious marine ecosystem that’s been hidden beneath an Antarctic ice shelf for […]
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More losers than winners for Southern Ocean marine life
Read more of: More losers than winners for Southern Ocean marine lifeA new study of the marine invertebrates living in the seas around Antarctica reveals there will be more ‘losers’ than ‘winners’ over the next century as the Antarctic seafloor warms. […]
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Antarctic marine life may grow faster in a warming world
Read more of: Antarctic marine life may grow faster in a warming worldA team of scientists has discovered that a 1°C rise in local sea temperature has massive impacts on an Antarctic marine community. These new results are published this week (31 […]
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Most advanced space weather radar to be built in Arctic
Read more of: Most advanced space weather radar to be built in ArcticThe most advanced space weather radar in the world is to be built in the Arctic by an international partnership including the UK, thanks to new investment, including in the […]
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New polar ship construction milestone
Read more of: New polar ship construction milestoneA major feat of engineering takes place this week (21 August) as the “stern section” of the new polar research ship for Britain, the RRS Sir David Attenborough, is transported […]
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Impact of giant Antarctic iceberg – update on Larsen-C
Read more of: Impact of giant Antarctic iceberg – update on Larsen-CThe largest remaining ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula lost 10% of its area when an iceberg four times the size of London broke free earlier this month. Since […]
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Huge Antarctic iceberg finally breaks free
Read more of: Huge Antarctic iceberg finally breaks freeAfter months of ‘hanging by a thread’ a vast iceberg the size of Norfolk has finally broken off Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf. Around 30 metres of this 190m thick […]
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Wedding bells in Antarctica
Read more of: Wedding bells in AntarcticaPolar field guides Julie Baum and Tom Sylvester tie the knot this weekend (15-16 July) at British Antarctic Survey’s (BAS) Rothera Research Station. It is the first official wedding to […]
