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Each year, on 21 June, personnel at BAS stations – Rothera, Bird Island, and South Georgia – join colleagues at other ...
A new study challenges recent claims about dramatic "greening" in Antarctica and how this conflicts with decades of field-based ecological knowledge. The new opinion article, "Is Antarctica Greening?" ...
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 ...
While the UK enjoys its longest day of sunlight on Saturday, British scientists at the South Pole experience 24 hours of ...
As the United Kingdom marks the height of summer, British researchers stationed in Antarctica observe the winter solstice, plunged into complete darkness lasting 24 hours, promptin ...
A new study challenges recent claims about dramatic "greening" in Antarctica and how this conflicts with decades of ...
The BBC World Service’s midwinter broadcast is part of a day of celebrations for personnel at British Antarctic Survey stations at Rothera, Bird Island, and South Georgia, who join colleagues at ...
Populations of Antarctic seals have halved over 50 years amid a warming climate and shrinking sea ice, a new study has shown.
“The scientific research that the British Antarctic Survey undertakes, alongside teams from across the world, is today more vital than ever, telling us stories of the past, the present and ...