Switzerland’s glaciers just lost 6% of their ice in a single year.

If and when the Thwaites Glacier melts, it will result in nearly 0.6 metres of sea level rise, but it holds back another three metres of sea level rise lurking within the Antarctic continent. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.

Mud from a lake high up in the Andes holds an incredible climate history. The find could shed light on how the climate will change in the future.

A new tool that uses lasers to measure glaciers is small enough to fit in a backpack and be carried up steep mountains.

The Earth has had at least five major ice ages, and humans showed up in time for the most recent one. In fact, we’re still in it.

A newly discovered city-size lake might contain a history of the world's largest ice sheet in East Antarctica since its earliest beginnings.

Liquid water below the ice determines how fast an ice stream flows. As the ice sheet gets thinner, more of that salty groundwater could rise.

Liquid water below the ice determines how fast an ice stream flows. As the ice sheet gets thinner, more of that salty groundwater could rise.

For the first time since satellites started studying the continent, East Antarctica has lost an entire ice shelf.