NEWS STORY: New polar ship bidder selected
Government announces preferred bidder to build new polar ship Minister of State for Universities and Science, Jo Johnson announced today that the preferred bidder to build a new polar research […]
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NEWS STORY: Assessing seabird communities
Read more of: NEWS STORY: Assessing seabird communitiesAntarctic seabird community structure remains unaffected by changes in food availability A new study of sub-Antarctic seabirds shows that their community structure (how they co-exist and share resources) is unaffected […]
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NEWS STORY: New Centre for Doctoral Training
Read more of: NEWS STORY: New Centre for Doctoral TrainingNERC funds PhD training in robotics and autonomous systems
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FEATURED PAPER: New geological history for Antarctic Peninsula
Read more of: FEATURED PAPER: New geological history for Antarctic PeninsulaThis paper revised the geological history of the Antarctic Peninsula to show how it developed over the last 500 million years, and used this history to tell us about the […]
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PRESS RELEASE: Fungal diversity in Antarctic soils
Read more of: PRESS RELEASE: Fungal diversity in Antarctic soilsWarmer temperatures stimulate diversity of soil fungi Remote and covered by ice for much of the year the Antarctic Peninsula is home to hidden and dynamic communities of microbes that […]
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NEWS STORY: Grant for penguin project
Read more of: NEWS STORY: Grant for penguin projectBAS scientists awarded grant to study penguins’ reliance on krill Norwegian and British scientists are to take part in a research project to determine how dependant non-breeding penguins are on […]
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PRESS RELEASE: Sea bed life captures carbon
Read more of: PRESS RELEASE: Sea bed life captures carbonAntarctic sea bed life captures carbon as sea ice melts Colonies of tiny filter-feeding Antarctic marine creatures (bryozoans), that appear to be thriving in response to a reduction in sea-ice […]
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NEWS STORY: Arctic sea ice 2015
Read more of: NEWS STORY: Arctic sea ice 2015Arctic sea ice 2015 On September 11, the National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) reported that Arctic sea ice reached its likely minimum extent for 2015. The minimum ice […]
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NEWS STORY: World Ozone Day 2015
Read more of: NEWS STORY: World Ozone Day 2015World Ozone Day 2015
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NEWS STORY: Ocean life triggers ice formation in clouds
Read more of: NEWS STORY: Ocean life triggers ice formation in cloudsResearchers from the Arctic Research Programme, managed at British Antarctic Survey (BAS), have shown for the first time that phytoplankton (plant life) in remote ocean regions can contribute to rare […]
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NEWS STORY: Antarctic stamps mark Queen’s milestone
Read more of: NEWS STORY: Antarctic stamps mark Queen’s milestoneA major scientific discovery made by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scientists, as well as one of its ships, feature on a new set of stamps being released to mark Queen […]
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NEWS STORY: Explaining sea lion decline
Read more of: NEWS STORY: Explaining sea lion declineThe southern sea lion population of the Falkland Islands witnessed a dramatic decline during the last century with numbers falling by 95 per cent between the 1930s and 1960s. It […]
