[British Antarctic Survey] Cambridge engineers have built the first microscope to see inside living cells in sub-zero conditions, revealing secrets of Antarctic fish survival.
British Antarctic Survey
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Ice World Expedition: Drilling Through Thwaites Glacier In West Antarctica
A team of researchers from the UK and Korea has reached the most inaccessible and least-understood part of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica where they will drill through the glacier […]
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Crossovers In Ice Planet Exploration – Earth, Europa, And Beyond
Keith’s note: On 11 February 2026 NOVA PBS Host / NewsHour reporter Miles O’Brien conducted a live broadcast from a ship in the southern ocean around Antarctica where Thwaites glacier […]
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Ice Planet Research: British Antarctic Survey Discovery Building Comes To Life
The 2025 – 2026 Antarctic season is a landmark for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and its Antarctic Infrastructure Modernisation Project (AIMP), as the new Discovery Building begins to take […]
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Ice Planet Orbital Recon: A23a Earth’s Largest Iceberg
The Ocean and Land Colour Instrument on Copernicus Sentinel-3 captured this image of Earth’s biggest iceberg, A23a, on 5 April 2025.
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Planetary Protection Protocols On Earth: Non-native Terrestrial Species In Antarctica
Antarctica has been subject to direct human activity for a little over 200 years. In recent decades, the combination of sharp increases in human activity and regional climate change, particularly […]
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Ice Planet Research: Antarctica’s Oldest Ice Is Heading To Europe
The oldest ice ever extracted from Antarctica is on its way to Europe, marking a major milestone in climate science. The ice cores, obtained through the Beyond EPICA – Oldest […]
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New Map Of The Landscape Beneath Antarctica’s Ice Unveiled
Antarctica’s ice sheet has been assembled by a team of international scientists led from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).
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Ice World Exploration: Historic Drilling Project Finds Ice Over 1.2 Million Years Old
The fourth Antarctic campaign of the Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice project has achieved a historic milestone this week, by successfully drilling a 2800-metre-long ice core, consisting of ice from the Antarctic […]
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Iceworld Update: Grim Outlook For Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier
A vast area of the Antarctic Ice Sheet continues to retreat as a UK-US group of scientists reveal new findings about how and when it might suddenly move towards collapse.