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The British Antarctic Survey team is using vehicle tracking and colored dials on its snowmobiles to monitor when and where they have toilet breaks. During long trips, BAS scientists sometimes use ...
“More than 90% of the extra heat from global warming has gone into the ocean,” Michael Meredith, an oceanographer specialized in polar oceans at the British Antarctic Survey, who wasn’t ...
Little is known about what dwells beneath Antarctica's floating ice shelves. In 2021, British Antarctic Survey researchers first reported signs of bottom-dwelling life beneath the Filchner-Ronne ...
Another challenge, co-sponsored with the British Antarctic Survey, a research institute, sought batteries that could operate at -40°C. Left unspoken was that the same technology was needed to ...
The British Antarctic Survey led the study and the results were published in the journal Scientific Data. As the name of the map implies, this is the third effort to illustrate Antarctica’s rock ...
The primary holdout? A section of the British Antarctic Territory, including the Pitcairn Islands that experiences perpetual sunlight six months out of the year. But thanks to cosmic geometry ...
The Bedmap3 from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the most detailed depiction ever captured of the southernmost ...
In February, a team of scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and international institutions embarked on an important research expedition to explore the diverse marine life ...
The Golden Age of Aviation Air Show was first held at Compton Abbas Airfield, Dorset, in August last year. Tickets had already been on sale for 2025 but organiser Aero Legends said it had "made ...
A media storm blew up in mid-March 2025 when a researcher at South Africa’s isolated Sanae IV base in Antarctica accused one of its nine team members of becoming violent. The Conversation Africa ...