Antarctica

Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 08:11 UTC
The plastic legacy has reached profusely to the bottom of the planet

On 5 June, UN World Environment Day, the campaign motto was “Beat Plastic Pollution”, and with very good reasons, we are surrounded by plastic pollution and a report from BAS indicates that at the bottom of the world, where few humans have ever set foot, an unwelcome visitor has arrived. Antarctica – the vast, frozen wilderness of ice and snow – is no longer untouched by humanity’s most persistent pollutant: plastic.
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Tuesday, June 10th 2025 - 08:27 UTC
Join the British Antarctic Survey at Seawork 2025, Southampton 10/12 June

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is exhibiting at Europe’s commercial marine and workboat exhibition, Seawork 2025,– and is inviting seafarers, cadets, and maritime professionals to come and discover what it takes to support science at the ends of the Earth.
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Monday, June 9th 2025 - 08:07 UTC
Sustainable Fisheries at South Georgia MPA

Sue Gregory has worked as the GSGSSI Senior Marine & Fisheries Manager for the past 8 years. Prior to that Sue worked as a fisheries ecologist on the South Georgia Project at the British Antarctic Survey for many years, including overwintering on South Georgia, conducting research surveys and acting as a scientific observer on Southern Ocean commercial fishing vessels In the following GSGGSSI Newsletter, Sue relates her experience.
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Saturday, June 7th 2025 - 06:32 UTC
IAATO mandates acoustic mitigation measures for B1 killer whales in 2025/26 season

IAATO, the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators, is mandating members operating in whale rich waters around the Antarctica Peninsula to implement acoustic mitigations measures, reports Anne Kalosh from Seatrade Cruise News.
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Friday, June 6th 2025 - 10:59 UTC
Historic polar ship SS Terra Nova revisited in first-ever wreck survey

An expedition led by the motor yacht MY Legend has completed the first visual survey of the wreck of the SS Terra Nova, offering new insight into one of the most emblematic ships of polar exploration. Located off the coast of Greenland, the wreck was first discovered in 2012, nearly 70 years after the ship sank during World War II.
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Saturday, May 31st 2025 - 13:52 UTC
British Family concern with Darwin Plus suspension and possible axing of vital conservation funds

Environmentalists, UK MPs and the same British Overseas Territories fear that Chancellor Rachel Reeves could be axing a vital fund, some £10 million to the Darwin Plus scheme, which is essential for scientific research in places such as the Falkland Islands and South Georgia.
Thursday, May 29th 2025 - 14:49 UTC
Forty years since the discovery of the ozone hole by a team of BAS scientists

This month, the world will mark the 40th anniversary of a moment that changed the course of history: the publication in Nature of ground-breaking research that presented the discovery of the ozone hole more precisely on 16 May 1985.
Thursday, May 29th 2025 - 10:50 UTC
Plus 400,000 Antarctica visitors forecasted next decade; IATTO’s cautious reply

A new report published in the Journal for Sustainable Tourism suggests Antarctic tourist numbers could almost quadruple to 452,000 next decade. Icebergs, penguins and almost half a million annual tourists, make up the potential scenario facing Antarctica next decade,
Friday, May 16th 2025 - 08:36 UTC
Whaling 1950 statistics, 30.000 hunted in Antarctica, despite “poor season in South Georgia”

The reporting of fisheries statistics for illex and loligo and varieties of finfish in 2025 are considered perfectly standard, although sensitive, but almost a century ago the reporting of whaling statistics in Antarctica was the norm too even when the large numbers caused some dismay.
Monday, May 12th 2025 - 15:44 UTC
Life on South Georgia as a Government Officer, “the best decision of my life”

By Nadine Orme - As I walk to work this morning, I pause to allow a group of penguins the time to wander down the path in front of me. This may sound like a dream, but for me it is day to day reality, and it’s absolutely incredible. From the moment I arrived here I knew I had made the best decision of my life in coming to work on South Georgia as a government officer.