Tag: British Antarctic Survey (BAS)

• Saturday, October 21st 2023 - 10:50 UTC

  BAS begins its ambitious 2023/24 Antarctic field season: 60 projects and 600 people

  

  The British Antarctic Survey has announced that the 2023/24 Antarctic field season has started, with over 600 people beginning the journey South to work on over 60 projects on station and in the field. The season of work speaks clearly to the new 10-year science strategy, Polar Science for a Sustainable Planet, making the most of our operational capabilities across BAS five Antarctic stations, aircraft, and research ship.

• Wednesday, September 20th 2023 - 08:13 UTC

  Brunt Ice Shelf moving faster after calving of giant iceberg

  

  Following the calving of the A-81 iceberg at the end of January 2023, the Brunt Ice Shelf is moving faster than before. It is currently moving approximately 4 meters a day towards the sea, whereas before the calving it moved at an average of between 1-2.5 meters a day.

• Wednesday, August 30th 2023 - 08:41 UTC

  Loss of sea ice causes catastrophic breeding failure for emperor penguins

  

  Emperor penguin colonies experienced unprecedented breeding failure in a region of Antarctica where there was total sea ice loss in 2022. The discovery supports predictions that over 90% of emperor penguin colonies will be quasi-extinct by the end of the century, based on current global warming trends.

• Sunday, August 27th 2023 - 14:48 UTC

  Emperor penguins in danger due to sea ice melting

  

  According to a peer-reviewed British Antarctic Survey report released late last week, the melting of sea ice might have caused the death of some 10,000 Emperor penguin chicks by the end of 2022.

• Monday, July 24th 2023 - 10:45 UTC

  Sixty years compilation of research on Antarctic ice and topography

  

  In a significant milestone for Antarctic research, detailed and extensive information on ice thickness and bed topography is now available for the first time in a centralized and standardized format, the British Antarctic Survey has announced.

• Tuesday, June 20th 2023 - 10:50 UTC

  BAS new ten-year strategy, Polar Science for a Sustainable Planet

  

  The British Antarctic Survey (BAS), is launching on Monday 19 June, its new ten-year science strategy that addresses urgent scientific challenges facing our world, namely in the continents of the Arctic and Antarctic and the impact that the Polar Regions have across our planet.

• Friday, June 2nd 2023 - 11:00 UTC

  RRS Sir David Attenborough back in UK; she returns to Antarctica in October

  

  The Falkland Islands' flagged RRS Sir David Attenborough has returned to the UK after a second season docked at Antarctica. The crew completed its polar science trials during what was a seven-month mission. The vessel arrived at Harwich in Essex on Tuesday.

• Thursday, April 20th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

  BAS Rothera Research Station has new scientific and operational support facility

  

  Work got underway on the latest of the Royal Navy’s next-generation submarine hunters, a £840m Type 26 frigate warship which will carry the name and motto – Forward – of England’s second city, Birmingham, around the globe for a quarter of a century.A new scientific and operational support facility at Rothera Research Station for British Antarctic Survey has been made weather-tight, with the cladding complete and an operations tower installed.

• Wednesday, March 22nd 2023 - 10:05 UTC

  BAS: A six coins series of Antarctic glaciers named after solar system planets

  

  Pobjoy Mint has announced a brand-new 2023 two-pound coin series issued on behalf of the British Antarctic Territory. The six-coin series will feature the Antarctic glaciers named after planets of the solar system starting with the Mars Glacier.

• Friday, February 10th 2023 - 09:52 UTC

  Drilling in Antarctica to find the Earth's oldest ice and 1,5 million years of climate history

  

  Scientists in East Antarctica drilling to find the Earth’s oldest ice have reached a key milestone after two months of fieldwork in sub-zero temperatures. The team is part of Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice, an EU-funded research consortium from 10 European countries whose aim is to drill an ice core to capture 1.5 million years of climate history.