http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/south/iod/rss.php News and press releases from the British Antarctic Survey http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/ http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/Images/baslogo.gif 300 70 en-uk Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT MakeSite Content Management System https://legacy.bas.ac.uk/about_bas/news/news_story.php?id=3055 In February 2002, satellite images from a remote location in Antarctica revealed how an immense volume of floating ice, up to 1km thick, suddenly collapsed. Over the course of a few weeks, 3,300km2 of the Larsen B Ice Shelf shattered and drifted out into the open ocean, leaving behind a large number of neighbouring mountain glaciers now exposed to the ocean. Prior to this dramatic event, these gla... News Story Thu, 06 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT https://legacy.bas.ac.uk/about_bas/news/news_story.php?id=3041 Researchers find new evidence that large eruptions were responsible for cold temperature extremes recorded since early Roman times A freshly drilled ice-core from TUNU, Greenland containing a history of volcanic eruptions is pushed out of the core barell. (Photo: Olivia Maselli) It is well known that large volcanic eruptions contribute to climate variability. However, quantifying these contri... News Story Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT https://legacy.bas.ac.uk/about_bas/news/news_story.php?id=3040 HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco recently closed a historic meeting of biodiversity and Antarctic experts, convened for three days in the Principality. The central purpose of the meeting was to examine the extent to which conservation of the biodiversity of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean is realising a set of ambitions agreed for the world as part of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011&ndash... News Story Tue, 30 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT https://legacy.bas.ac.uk/about_bas/news/news_story.php?id=3033 A new assessment by scientists, published in Nature this week, suggests Antarctica is a more diverse and biologically rich region than previously thought. Isopods (Photo: British Antarctic Survey) The team of scientists, led by Monash University, along with colleagues from the British Antarctic Survey, University of Waikato in New Zealand, and Australian National University, looked at how re... News Story Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT https://legacy.bas.ac.uk/about_bas/news/news_story.php?id=3024 This week staff at British Antarctic Survey (BAS) are celebrating Midwinter’s Day in Antarctica. In a tradition which began in the days of Captain Scott the event marks the shortest, and darkest, day of the year. This year’s science and support teams will brave the elements for a long distance run (weather permitting) followed by a festive meal and exchange of gifts that the team membe... News Story Wed, 17 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT https://legacy.bas.ac.uk/about_bas/news/news_story.php?id=3016 Staff from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) will showcase its work at this year’s British Geological Survey (BGS) Open Day on Saturday 27 June in Keyworth, Nottingham. At ‘Discover Antarctica’ family visitors can experience the ‘sights and sounds of Antarctic space weather’ including the dazzling Aurora Australis and explore like a polar explorer by entering a dee... News Story Thu, 04 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT https://legacy.bas.ac.uk/about_bas/news/news_story.php?id=3015 The study of hybridization in natural populations provides an opportunity to study the evolutionary processes involved in genetic divergence and the development of new species. This paper in PLoS ONE with a lead author who is an ex-Bird Island Field Assistant, uses data from a long-term demographic study to examine mixed-pairing and hybridization between two sibling species ‒ northern giant... News Story Wed, 03 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT https://legacy.bas.ac.uk/about_bas/news/news_story.php?id=3007 Work in a cold climate: designing for the most extreme place on Earth London Festival of Architecture 2015 Thursday 18 June 2015, 18:30 - 20:00The Institution of Structural Engineers 47-58 Bastwick Street, London, EC1V 3PS Halley VI Research Station in Antarctica is the world’s first fully re-locatable research station which is built on the floating Brunt Ice Shelf, one of the most re... News Story Wed, 27 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT https://legacy.bas.ac.uk/about_bas/news/news_story.php?id=3000 White chinned Petrel (Photo: Andy Wood, British Antarctic Survey) Staff at British Antarctic Survey (BAS) are following the journeys of White-chinned Petrel fledglings as they make their first journeys over the South Atlantic Ocean in search of food. The birds have been fitted with small satellite transmitters and the location data are processed at BAS’ head office in Cambridge, UK. The ... News Story Tue, 26 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT ?id=2999 A new initiative to enhance the integration of Europe’s scientific and operational capabilities in the Polar Regions has been funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme. The €2 million five-year EU-PolarNet programme brings together 22 of Europe’s internationally-respected multi-disciplinary research institutions to develop and deliver an integrated European polar research programm... Press Release Tue, 19 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT https://legacy.bas.ac.uk/about_bas/news/news_story.php?id=2998 In April 2014 the British Government earmarked more than £200 million for a new UK polar flagship that will be ready for its first science mission in 2019. A major part of this investment is the redevelopment of Antarctic research station infrastructure. On Thursday 4 June 2015 at 10am BAS will host a seminar for design and construction industries at its Cambridge offices to introduce the ... News Story Mon, 18 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT https://legacy.bas.ac.uk/about_bas/news/news_story.php?id=2990 The world’s oceans are becoming more acidic because they absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and atmospheric CO2 levels have increased since the Industrial Revolution. This acidification potentially has catastrophic effects for marine organisms that build shells or a skeleton as it reduces the availability of shell-building ions. Brachiopods are one of the best groups of animals to investigate th... News Story Fri, 15 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT ?id=2989 A decade-long scientific debate about what’s causing the thinning of one of Antarctica’s largest ice shelves is settled this week (Wednesday 13 May) with the publication of an international study in the journal The Cryosphere. BAS RADAR Sledge on the Larsen Ice Shelf (Photo: Adam Clark, British Antarctic Survey) The Larsen C Ice Shelf — whose neighbours Larsen A and B, colla... Press Release Wed, 13 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT https://legacy.bas.ac.uk/about_bas/news/news_story.php?id=2988 This week British Antarctic Survey (BAS) commemorates the 30th anniversary of one of its most important scientific discoveries that affected the world – the ozone hole. In May 1985 reporting in Nature, Joe Farman, Brian Gardiner and Jonathan Shanklin described their observations of large losses of ozone over Antarctica. Jonathan Shanklin features in a special broadcast of ‘Costing ... News Story Mon, 11 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT https://legacy.bas.ac.uk/about_bas/news/news_story.php?id=2982 A Research Experience Placement supported by EnvEast DTP and funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is available at British Antarctic Survey (BAS) this summer. The application deadline is 16:30 on 15th May 2015. For further information about the project "How much effect does space weather really have on the atmosphere and how well can we predict those effects?" and... News Story Wed, 06 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT