The U.S. Coast Guard announced the award of two contracts to build up to six Arctic Security Cutter (ASC) icebreakers — ships designed to break through and navigate ice-covered waters — between the United States and Finland.
The divers will be retrieving groundbreaking measurements of how the vessel’s propellers interact with sea ice – using instrumentation deployed in the Antarctic for only the second time.
These maps provide the first update of the region for 40 years, highlighting unseen features as well as how the glaciers are retreating due to climate change.
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).
A new map of the South Orkney Islands has been released by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) – the first UK published, topographic map of the region in almost 40 years.
A81 broke off Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf in February after being weakly tethered to the mainland for years, according to The British Antarctic Survey.
