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1. NEWS STORY: New Centre for Doctoral Training

   NERC funds PhD training in robotics and autonomous systems

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2. FEATURED PAPER: New geological history for Antarctic Peninsula

   This 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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3. PRESS RELEASE: Fungal diversity in Antarctic soils

   Warmer 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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4. NEWS STORY: Grant for penguin project

   BAS 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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5. PRESS RELEASE: Sea bed life captures carbon

   Antarctic 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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6. NEWS STORY: Arctic sea ice 2015

   Arctic 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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7. NEWS STORY: World Ozone Day 2015

   World Ozone Day 2015

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8. NEWS STORY: Ocean life triggers ice formation in clouds

   Researchers 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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9. NEWS STORY: Antarctic stamps mark Queen’s milestone

   A 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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10. NEWS STORY: Explaining sea lion decline

    The 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 […]

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11. FEATURED PAPER: Ocean upwelling and increasing winds

    As the southern westerly winds drive the Antarctic circumpolar current around Antarctica, deep waters are forced up to the surface south of the polar front. Changes in the intensity with […]

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12. NEWS STORY: Predicting polar ice loss

    Most comprehensive ice loss model A new international study is the first to use a high-resolution, large-scale computer model to estimate how much ice the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could […]

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