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UK national research institute conducting polar science in Antarctica and the Arctic, studying ice, climate, and marine ecosystems.
Thwaites Glacier kept losing ice for all 150 simulated years in three models with ocean melting set to zero, New Scientist reports. The setup is physically impossible, so it shows the glacier's momentum but not how much sea level will rise.
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British Antarctic Survey aerial surveys found 63% fewer occupied chinstrap penguin nests on Zavodovski Island in 2025 than in 2011. The researchers blame krill moving south as the sea warms and say the birds may now count as endangered.
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An August glacier collapse killed more than 1,000 people on the Tibet-Nepal border. The author of a phys.org piece, who works with British Antarctic Survey glaciologists, writes that winter snowfall across the range is still measured too sparsely to constrain the models.
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The IMBIE team merged 42 independent satellite surveys from 27 missions to account for 11.3 trillion tonnes of ice lost from Greenland and Antarctica since 1979, and it assigns 84% of that loss to glaciers accelerating into the ocean.
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A Cambridge and British Antarctic Survey team grew spiny plunderfish cells in the lab, then imaged them alive near 0 degrees Celsius. The preprint reports enlarged lysosomes and more networked mitochondria than in a temperate fish.
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Plymouth and British Antarctic Survey researchers diluted the water around one abundant Antarctic amphipod, which held its calcium but lost overall ionic balance, a single-species result now asked to carry a claim about the global ocean.
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The archive that pushed Smyley Island's founding back to at least 1989 also shows the colony re-forming beside grounded icebergs after a probable total failure in 2022. That re-forming pattern is awkward for projections that hold breeding sites still.
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