A huge sub-glacial basin the size of Wales has been discovered under one of the key Antarctic ice sheets that could make it more unstable and liable to disintegration, a study has found.
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Antarctica team endures extremes in hope of showing the way to Mars
Sunday 06 May 2012
Fourteen researchers are undergoing four months of freezing darkness, all in aid of space travel
Prince William is left holding the baby
Thursday 26 April 2012
The Duke of Cambridge cradled a couple's baby today as he celebrated the achievements of a group of polar trekkers.
It's the right time to return to the South Pole
Wednesday 11 April 2012
Theatre director Stephen Unwin explains why he is revisiting one of Manfred Karge's plays from the Eighties
Manfred Karge: The playwright who grapples with the underclass
Wednesday 11 April 2012
Theatre director Stephen Unwin on why he is championing a European maverick
Lifeline for Antarctic research team
Monday 09 April 2012
Britain's leading research body for scientific studies of Antarctica has been thrown a financial lifeline after it faced budget cuts of at least 25 per cent.
Exclusive: British polar research in crisis
Sunday 08 April 2012
The scientific body whose groundbreaking discoveries include the hole in the ozone layer is facing massive cuts as the Government's austerity measures reach new frontiers
Revealed: Wife's last words of comfort to Captain Scott
Sunday 18 March 2012
As the centenary of his death approaches, the letter he held as he died is made public for the first time
'Sabotage' forces whaling fleet to end season early
Saturday 10 March 2012
Conservationists claimed victory yesterday after Japan announced it had ended its whaling season early, having hauled less than a third of the annual target.
Ocean wildlife protected
Tuesday 28 February 2012
Wildlife protection across a vast area of ocean has been declared around South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
Research Matters: Britain beats the recession to remain on the cutting edge
Thursday 09 February 2012
Culture of enquiry and curiosity attracts talent from all over the world
Billions of tons of water lost from world's glaciers, satellite reveals
Thursday 09 February 2012
The total volume of water that has melted from all of the world's polar ice sheets, ice caps and mountain glaciers over the past decade would repeatedly fill Britain's largest lake, Windemere, more than 13,000 times, according to one of the most comprehensive studies of the Earth's frozen "cryosphere".
A quick beer lifted ultra-runner to success
Monday 06 February 2012
An Irish ultra runner has revealed a bottle of beer helped him become the only man on the planet to run seven marathons on seven continents in less than five days.
Scott's lost photos of Antarctica are bought for nation
Tuesday 17 January 2012
The last photographs taken by Captain Robert Scott on his doomed journey to the South Pole have been bought for the nation in time for today's centenary of the expedition.
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