Grim outlook for Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier
New science briefing summarises results of the ambitious international collaboration to study Antarctica’s most worrying glacier
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Read more of: Grim outlook for Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier
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Get your Ticket to Antarctica!
Read more of: Get your Ticket to Antarctica!Your name will go on a journey to the frozen wilderness!
New project seeks to inspire, educate and entertain the public about Antarctica.
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Expedition to Greenland will piece together movements of ancient civilisation
Read more of: Expedition to Greenland will piece together movements of ancient civilisationAn interdisciplinary team of researchers is heading back to Greenland this week (30 July) for the second phase of the Wandel Dal Project.
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Seabirds threatened by trawl fisheries
Read more of: Seabirds threatened by trawl fisheriesSeabirds are among the most threatened creatures globally, often due to incidental mortality (bycatch) in fisheries.
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Greenland science expedition aims to unveil critical climate insights
Read more of: Greenland science expedition aims to unveil critical climate insightsA team will work in south-east Greenland to advance our understanding of the region’s rapidly decaying ice sheet and its impacts on ocean and global climate systems.
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Modernisation milestones achieved in Antarctica
Read more of: Modernisation milestones achieved in AntarcticaConstruction teams have completed significant stages of the British Antarctic Survey’s (BAS) Antarctic Infrastructure Modernisation Programme and joined the over-wintering staff for the first time as the 2023/24 summer season ended.
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New tipping point discovered beneath the Antarctic ice sheet
Read more of: New tipping point discovered beneath the Antarctic ice sheetWarm water that seeps underneath can melt ice in way not yet included in models
A new and worrying way that large ice sheets can melt has been characterised by scientists for the first time. The research focuses on how relatively warm seawater can lap at the underside of ground-based ice, which can accelerate the movement of the ice into the ocean.
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Drones validate walrus counts in satellite images from space
Read more of: Drones validate walrus counts in satellite images from spaceIn the first successful attempt to calibrate walrus counts from satellite imagery, scientists used drones to validate animal counts in Svalbard, Norway.
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Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica calves new iceberg
Read more of: Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica calves new icebergNew iceberg, the size of the Isle of Wight, is expected to be called A-83
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Record low Antarctic sea ice ‘extremely unlikely’ without climate change
Read more of: Record low Antarctic sea ice ‘extremely unlikely’ without climate changeScientists at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have found that the record-low levels of sea ice around Antarctica in 2023 were extremely unlikely to happen without the influence of climate change.
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Emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica suffer as sea-ice diminishes
Read more of: Emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica suffer as sea-ice diminishesRecord low levels of Antarctic sea-ice in late 2023 resulted in breeding failures in a fifth of the continent’s emperor penguin colonies, according to a new study from British Antarctic Survey (BAS).
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New insights into the bed beneath remote Antarctic glacier
Read more of: New insights into the bed beneath remote Antarctic glacierScientists have discovered a landscape of rocky hills and smooth plains beneath the remote Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica.
