Antarctica: Metal meteorite quest set to get under way
A UK team arrives in Antarctica to test its theory for why so few iron meteorites are found there.
By Jonathan Amos | Nov. 29, 2019 | bbcnews~4 mins
Tags: meteorites geology british-antarctic-survey earth-science antarctic
Europe's new space budget to enable CO2 mapping
A multi-billion-euro funding package for the European Space Agency is agreed by its member states.
By Jonathan Amos | Nov. 28, 2019 | bbcnews~7 mins
Tags: mars earth-science carbon-dioxide space-exploration nasa european-space-agency
Project Oberon: UK eyes cluster of military radar satellites
Defence chiefs want a batch of small spacecraft able to see the Earth's surface in all weathers.
By Jonathan Amos | Sept. 11, 2019 | bbcnews~5 mins
Tags: earth-science ministry-of-defence airbus-group space-exploration earth-observation
The day the dinosaurs' world fell apart
Scientists reconstruct the seconds, minutes and hours following the dino-killing asteroid impact.
By Jonathan Amos | Sept. 10, 2019 | bbcnews~5 mins
Tags: geology asteroids earth-science dinosaurs
Victor Vescovo: Adventurer reaches deepest ocean locations
Financier Victor Vescovo completes his quest to visit the deepest parts of Earth's five oceans.
By Jonathan Amos | Sept. 9, 2019 | bbcnews~5 mins
Tags: earth-science oceans marine-biology
Etna volcano: The Mountain Man celebrates his life's work
The UK volcanologist John Murray has painstakingly measured Mt Etna for half a century.
By Jonathan Amos | Sept. 6, 2019 | bbcnews~4 mins
Tags: volcanoes earth-science sicily
'Jet in a box' powers remote Halley Antarctic base
Engineers succeed in automating science experiments at the UK's Halley research station.
By Jonathan Amos | June 25, 2019 | bbcnews~5 mins
Tags: earth-science antarctic
'Cryoegg' to explore under Greenland Ice Sheet
UK sensors placed under the Greenland Ice Sheet will monitor how its glaciers slide towards the ocean.
By Jonathan Amos | June 16, 2019 | bbcnews~6 mins
Tags: greenland earth-science engineering climate-change cardiff
Greenland map captures changing Arctic in fine detail
The British Antarctic Survey produces an exquisite new printed sheet map of Greenland and the European Arctic.
By Jonathan Amos | June 13, 2019 | bbcnews~4 mins
Tags: greenland earth-science earth-observation arctic climate-change maps
Antarctic glaciers to honour 'satellite heroes'
Antarctic glaciers are named after the spacecraft that revolutionised our understanding of the continent.
By Jonathan Amos | June 7, 2019 | bbcnews~5 mins
Tags: earth-science space-exploration european-space-agency antarctic
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