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1. Midwinter’s Day in Antarctica

   On Tuesday June 21st, scientists and support staff based at research stations in Antarctica will celebrate Midwinter’s Day, the shortest day of the Austral Winter. In a tradition that goes […]

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2. Medical evacuation successfully completed

   The medical evacuation from the US South Pole station via British Antarctic Survey’s Rothera Research Station has been completed successfully. A Twin Otter arrived in Punta Arenas, Chile in the […]

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3. Carbon dioxide level breached at Halley VI

   Levels of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere – which is the leading driver of recent climate change – have reached a milestone at British Antarctic Survey’s […]

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4. FEATURED PAPER: Energetic Electron Hazard

   Energetic electrons are an important space weather hazard. In this paper we apply extreme value analysis to 16 years of operational satellite data from the NOAA Polar Operational Environmental Satellites […]

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5. FEATURED PAPER: Battling bryozoans

   This paper shows that, contrary to long-held ideas, the intensity of competition (density of direct, physical spatial contests) differs little with latitude. However, the severity of competition (contests with a […]

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6. Antarctic ‘space’ exhibition opens in Cheltenham

   An exhibition showing how the isolation of Antarctica is used as a platform for understanding space opens this week (7-12 June) at The Times Science Festival in Cheltenham.

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7. UK reaffirms commitment to protecting Antarctica

   International declaration marks the 25th anniversary of the signing of the 1991 Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty

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8. Antarctic fossils show creatures wiped out by asteroid

   A study of more than 6,000 marine fossils from the Antarctic shows that the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs was sudden and just as deadly to life in the polar regions.

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9. FEATURED PAPER: Improved modelling of ice-ocean processes

   Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica is currently one of the single biggest contributors to sea-level rise with an estimated volume loss of 1.2mm sea-level equivalent per decade. The loss […]

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10. UK’s £200m Polar Research Ship named in honour of Sir David Attenborough

    UK’s £200m Polar Research Ship to be named after Sir David Attenborough, days before the broadcaster’s 90th birthday “Boaty McBoatface” to live on as the name of the ship’s high-tech […]

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11. Documentary follows BBC’s Peter Gibbs back to the ice

    BBC Horizon documentary ‘Ice Station Antarctica’ to be broadcast on Wednesday 4 May at 8pm, BBC2.

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12. British Antarctic Survey seeks construction partner

    Opportunity to partner with BAS to deliver a construction programme to modernise UK Antarctic and other research facilities.

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