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1. Event – climate change, business and policy

   Event – climate change, business and policy Date: 27 May 2008 Venue: British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge **In the presence of HRH The Prince of Wales** Scientists, business leaders and politicians […]

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2. New vision of climate change through Google Earth

   Millions of Google Earth users around the world will be able to see how climate change could affect the planet and its people over the next century, along with viewing […]

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3. Antarctic leadership challenge – opportunity announced

   An opportunity to take a leading role in shaping the strategic direction of British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is announced this week (7 May). Two business leaders will join the BAS […]

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4. Polar Science for Planet Earth – The Independent on Sunday

   To find out more about British Antarctic Survey’s ground breaking discoveries visit the press area of our website. On 20 April 2008 The Independent on Sunday offers a free poster […]

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5. From Mars to the Earth: Studying ice beneath the surface

   British Antarctic Survey scientists are collaborating with the European Space Agency (ESA) on a technique being used by the ESA at Mars that could prove invaluable for studying the stability […]

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6. Winter arrives in Antarctica

   While the northern hemisphere looks forward to spring and summer, Antarctica slips into Winter. On March 5th the RRS Ernest Shackleton left Halley research station; the eleven intrepid winterers have […]

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7. Antarctic ice shelf “hangs by a thread”

   New evidence has emerged that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global warming, the European Space Agency (ESA) […]

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8. Unmanned aerial vehicles mark robotic first for British Antarctic Survey

   Scientists at British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in collaboration with the Technical University of Braunschweig (TUBS), Germany have completed the first ever series of flights by autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) […]

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9. Prestigious science prize awarded for 800,000 year old ice core

   Ice core scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) are joint winners of a major European science prize. The European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) – which retrieved two […]

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10. Scraping the bottom

    Iceberg scouring is a major factor affecting the diversity and abundance of marine benthic communities in Antarctica’s highly dynamic ecosystem. Reporting in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series biologist Dr […]

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11. New discovery at Jupiter could help protect Earth-orbit satellites

    Radio waves accelerate electrons within Jupiter’s magnetic field in the same way as they do on Earth, according to new research published in Nature Physics this week. The discovery overturns a […]

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12. Hibernation-like behaviour in Antarctic fish – on ice for winter

    Scientists have discovered an Antarctic fish species that adopts a winter survival strategy similar to hibernation.  Reporting this week in the journal PLoS ONE, the online journal from the Public […]

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