ANTARCTICA: Scientists have discovered vibrant communities of ancient sponges and corals on the newly exposed seafloor ...

The place thought to have had the thickest overlying ice was Astrolabe Basin, in Adélie Land, but a reinterpretation of data ...

Cambridge and Oxford have produced world leaders, celebrated thinkers and Nobel prize-winning scientists. Some of them had a ...

Come along to ‘Antarctic Adventure – Explore the Frozen Frontier’ – a talk aimed at anyone over 7 years old by British Antarctic Survey (BAS ... talk is part of Cambridge Festival 2025 ...

The oldest ice ever extracted from Antarctica is on its way to Europe, marking a major milestone in climate science. The ice ...

The British Antarctic Survey says nutrients from the grounding and melting of the megaberg known as ‘A23a’ may boost food for ...

Last week as it approached South Georgia it was moving "very fast," according to Dr Andrew Meijers, an oceanographer at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge. "It was covering 30km a day ...

Another challenge, co-sponsored with the British Antarctic Survey, a research institute, sought batteries that could operate ...

The iceberg A23a did not exactly smack into the remote wildlife-rich island of South Georgia. The effect of a trillion tonnes ...

"Fairly ripping along for an iceberg," according to Andrew Meijers, an oceanographer at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge. The sea around South Georgia is warm compared to its Antarctic ...

Several million penguins live in the area along with several species of albatross, elephant seals and fur seals, all of which ...

After nearly 40 years at sea, the world's largest iceberg has run aground on the remote British overseas territory of South ...