More than 40 organisations are joining forces to strengthen how the rapidly changing Arctic is observed, understood and ...

This weekend, the UK’s polar icebreaker RRS Sir David Attenborough departed the UK for Antarctica, and British Antarctic Survey’s (BAS) aircraft fleet began to touchdown at Rothera Research Station.

One-third of the world’s ocean surface is located in the Southern Ocean, south of 30°S, encircling the Antarctic continent south of 30°S. The ocean circulation in this vast region has a profound ...

Logist develops decision support tools that use environmental data to help experts make the best routing and planning decisions. It brings together specialists in research software engineering, AI ...

We examined the provisioning strategy of a long-lived seabird to test the prediction from life-history theory that adults should preferentially allocate resources towards their own needs rather than ...

In a bold experiment to understand the behaviour of fast-changing glaciers in West Antarctica, scientists completely switched ...

British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has been honoured at this year's British Construction and Infrastructure Awards (BCIA), ...

A remote volcanic island near Antarctica has lost its title of largest penguin colony in the world, as new research reveals massive population declines, igniting fears for species’ survival.

ANTARCTICA: The world’s largest and oldest iceberg A23a has finally come to a standstill as it appears to have run aground near the sub-Antarctic Island of South Georgia. The giant A23a, which weighs ...

The BRITICE-CHRONO consortium of researchers undertook a dating programme to constrain the timing of advance, maximum extent and retreat of the British–Irish Ice Sheet between 31 000 and 15 000 years ...

This year’s research programme showcases a range of climate, ocean, glaciological and ecological research – including major international collaborations, advanced autonomous technology trials and a ...

Long-term monitoring sits at the heart of everything we do here at British Antarctic Survey (BAS). It allows us to build trusted evidence over decades. That evidence helps us understand how polar ...