Climate Science Archives - British Antarctic Survey

A historic moment: over 1.2 million years of Earth’s climate history captured from an Antarctic ice core

2 October, 2025

Ancient ice from Antarctica, extracted as part of the Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice project, captures a unique climate record spanning at least the past 1.2 million years. The team …

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Study challenges recent claims about rapid Antarctic “greening”

26 June, 2025

A new study challenges recent claims about dramatic “greening” in Antarctica and how this conflicts with decades of field-based ecological knowledge. The new opinion article ‘Is Antarctica Greening?’, published in …

BLOG: If we are serious about climate mitigation, we must do smarter ocean nature protection

19 May, 2021 David Barnes

This week at Climate Exp0, Dr David Barnes, benthic marine Ecologist at British Antarctic Survey, has discussed the potential for mitigating climate change through nature-based solutions, including sharing collaborative research …

Antarctica: Mystery of the ice

Join climate scientist and #SciComm expert Ella Gilbert online for ‘Antarctica: Mystery of the ice’ at BAS Live, 2:00pm, Thursday 18 June 2020. Antarctica, the world’s most southerly continent, contains …

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A historic moment: over 1.2 million years of Earth’s climate history captured from an Antarctic ice core

Study challenges recent claims about rapid Antarctic “greening”

BLOG: If we are serious about climate mitigation, we must do smarter ocean nature protection