"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...

Researchers took advantage of a rare chance to explore a new expanse of seafloor exposed by the breakup of an Antarctic ice ...

They use vehicle tracking and colored dials on its snowmobiles to monitor when and where they have toilet breaks.

Never seen, perhaps, but that doesn't mean forever to remain unknown. For years, the British Antarctic Survey has been flying planes over the frozen southern continent, using radar, sound waves, and ...

The startling allegations were first made in an email sent by one of the researchers working at the South African National Antarctic Expedition base (SANAE IV) in Vesleskarvet, Queen Maud Land.

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 ...

Known as Bedmap3, this remarkable project has been led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and brings together more than six decades of data. By combining information gathered from satellites, ...

Survey respondents shared their views on this tricky subject, and it shows just how annoyed (and ultimately confused) Americans might feel about adding an extra 20%. “Tips have gone far beyond ...

In addition, researchers from the University of Cambridge, University of East Anglia and British Antarctic Survey on the cruise deployed autonomous underwater vehicles known as sea gliders to study ...

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The base sits on stilts near a cliff edge — a row of buildings that the team will remain in until December, the heart of the Antarctic summer, when a ship is set to depart from South Africa to ...