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

On the icy edge of Antarctica, the UK has built more than a new home for discovery. It has helped grow a world-leading British design success story. The completion of Discovery Building at Rothera ...

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.

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

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

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.

Cambridge engineers have built the first microscope to see inside living cells in sub-zero conditions, revealing secrets of Antarctic fish survival. Scientists have captured the first-ever ...

A robot is cruising beneath Antarctic sea-ice. Another is bolted to the face of a collapsing Greenland glacier. A third is silently counting penguins on a remote, windswept beach. None of them has a ...

Scientists and crew on board RRS Sir David Attenborough captured footage of a huge glacier calving event in East Greenland. The ship is there as part of the GIANT science expedition. Scientists are ...

As extreme summer heat causes disruption across the UK and Europe this week, Midwinter at Antarctica’s Rothera Research Station is becoming increasingly unrecognisable. Winter conditions at the UK’s ...

British Antarctic Survey scientists and support staff are coming to the end of another successful Antarctic science season. As austral winter begins to set in, RRS Sir David Attenborough has completed ...