The BAS scientist has not long returned from Antarctica where he's been tracking emperors with satellite tags. This is providing new insights on the distances the birds will travel to forage for the food they need to bring back for their young at nesting sites. The data shows the adults can...
The UK also recorded its hottest June while the impact of high temperatures is also being felt at the world'sextremes. In Antarctica, the July temperature record was broken with a reading of 8.7C taken at Ukraine's Vernadsky Research base. Scientists believe that more records will be shattere...
Neil Yes. On one hand, vaccines take many years of research and these companies wantto make a profit, which means to sell the product for more than it costs to make it. Rob But on the other hand, the lack of vaccines can kill people and it’s really very sad to see people dying ...
Coal. Right. Okay. Well, as usual, we'll give you the right answer at the end of the programme. Well, I love travelling but I wonder how that very sensitive environment in Antarctica is going to be preserved. That's why B...
Antarctica - icy, empty, desolate, cold - these are words you may use to describe it, but it hasn’t always been that way. There was once a time when the great southern landmass was covered in forests and dinosaurs roamed free. How could such an icy wilderness once have been so warm...
17 February 2026:Annular solar eclipse, Antarctica 12 August 2026:Total solar eclipse, Iceland and Spain 6 February 2027:Annular solar eclipse, South America, Africa 2 August 2027:Total solar eclipse, Europe, Africa, Asia When is the next total solar eclipse?
Michel André, a 2002 Rolex Awards Laureate, works in Antarctica deploying pioneering new technology to listen to the ocean’s acoustic environment and help protect it from noise pollution. Ghislain Bardoutis co-founder and leader of Under The Pole expeditions. He developed a special capsule that...
How likely is it that the ice cliffs in Antarctica will collapse into the sea causing a terrifying amount of sea-level rise? Even the best supercomputers in the world aren’t fast enough to do all the calculations we need to understand what might be going on, so Tamsin uses statistical ...
Well, there's another aboutenvironmentalistswho fight to stop people building the first hotel in Antarctica. Finn Environmentalists – people who care about the environment. Well there's conflict there … and it's plausible, so ...
Just a few scientists in research stations share the icy landscape with penguins and other animals who can cope with the low temperatures. Tourism in Antarctica began in the 1950s and it' s still on a small scale (规模). However, ...