Scientists react to the detection of avian influenza in mammals in the sub-Antarctica region. Dr Kathleen Steinhöfel, a Reader in … read more
A study published in Nature Climate Change looks at the future increase of Antarctic ice-shelf melting. Professor John Moore, Arctic … read more
A new synthesis of evidence about extreme events in the Antarctic has been published in Frontiers in Environmental Science. It … read more
A study, published in Nature, looked at the Antarctic ice sheet and sea level rise. Dr Helene Hewitt, a Met … read more
A study, published in Science Advances, reports that deposition of large quantities of artificial snow may reduce the rate of disintegration … read more
Publishing in the journal Nature researchers from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have reported how a regional cooling phase in the Antarctic is a result of natural forces temporarily masking the longer warming trend. read more
The rapid warming of the Antarctic Peninsula, which occurred from the early-1950s to the late 1990s, has paused. The stabilisation of the ozone hole, changing wind patterns and natural variability were significant in bringing about this change. Together these factors have caused the peninsula, which makes up 1% of the Antarctic, to enter a temporary cooling phase. Temperatures remain higher than measured during the middle of the 20th Century, so glacial retreat is still taking place. Scientists predict that if greenhouse gas concentrations continue to rise at the current rate, temperatures will increase across the Antarctic Peninsula by several degrees Centigrade by the end of this century. read more
A paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience has examined timescales of ocean warming in response to greenhouse gases in the Arctic. read more
A study published in the journal Nature has reported the erosion of deep ice and related movements of an Antarctic glacier as well as modeling possible sea-level rises. read more
Publishing in the journal Science, researchers have reported the loss of ice from Antarctic ice sheets and suggest that warmer waters surrounding the glaciers may be responsible for the loss. read more
A paper published in the journal Science has reported that the rate of loss of ice shelves, which hold back ice sheet flow, in the Antarctic has accelerated since 1994. read more
Researchers have published in the journal Nature Geoscience their efforts to map the thickness of sea ice in the Antarctic using an autonomous underwater vehicle. The team provide new estimates for characteristics of the Antarctic sea ice, and suggest that it may in fact be thicker than previous estimates proposed. read more
Nature Communications published findings that diamonds may be present in the geology of the Antarctic.
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A study published in Nature Geoscience found the technology behind satellite observations of mass loss from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets is currently unable to separate long-term trends from short-term natural variability. read more
A study published in Nature Geoscience suggests climate warming has led to Antarctic sea ice expansion, due to cool freshwater from melt beneath the Antarctic ice shelves insulating offshore sea ice from the warming ocean beneath. read more
Ice sheet loss from Greenland and the Antarctic will contribute to sea level rise. A new study published in Science combines multiple satellite data to estimate the mass balance of Earth’s polar ice sheets and its effect on sea level. read more
NERC council announced that the proposed merger of the British Antarctic Survey and National Oceanography Centre will not go ahead and BAS and NOC will remain as NERC’s centres. read more
Growing concern was expressed over the merging of the British Antarctic Survey with the National Oceanography Centre. read more
Five leading UK scientists briefed journalists on the state of the world’s polar ice and how the landscape is really changing across Greenland, Arctic sea ice and the Antarctic. read more
A British engineering team went to Antarctica this October for the first stage of a scientific mission to collect water and sediment samples from a lake buried beneath three kilometres of solid ice, and attempt to uncover clues about the evolution of life on Earth and other planets, and about the Earth’s past climate. read more
