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, ...

Bisol’s 22kW project aims to meet the increasing energy needs of the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Research Station. Image: René Robert – International Polar Foundation Antarctica is one of the ...

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 ...

During Antarctica’s warm season, the sleek Norwegian passenger ship known as the MS Fridtjof Nansen departs regularly from Argentina for its journey south across the turbulent Drake Passage, down to ...

Claudia Colesie receives funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC, grant NE/V000764/1) and the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA, grant Darwin Plus DPLUS186, ...