The Discovery Building features a wind deflector that prevents snow from piling up next to the building. It could change how ...

A major international competition to design a new scientific research station at one of the Earth’s most extreme environments – Antarctica – is launched this week by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and ...

The British Antarctic Survey’s Halley VI (all images courtesy the British Council) It’s been just over a century since Roald Amundsen and his party became the first people to stand at the South Pole, ...

The extreme-environment scheme follows on from the practice’s work on Halley VI Research Station, as well as others in ...

The most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been assembled by a team of international scientists led from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). Known as Bedmap3, it ...

At a penguin colony on the Antarctic coast, Leila Jeffreys has her camera at the ready. "It's been something I've dreamed about for so many years," she said as a group of Adélie penguins gathered ...