Glaciology – The Conversation

If all glaciers melt, sea level will rise by about 24cm. If the polar ice sheets melt, sea level will rise by more than 65m; almost 300 times more.

A global study of 3,000 glaciers reveals the risks of surging ice in a warming world.

A glaciologist investigates a Disney classic.

We analysed 8,000 maps and found crevasses are increasing in size and depth.

Some of the world’s biggest glaciers flow into fjords in Greenland and we need to know what they’ll bump into on the seabed.

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

A field glaciologist explains the changes scientists are now seeing.

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

Strategic tensions with Russia and China are hardening globally and Antarctica won’t be immune from them. Can Antarctica stay peripheral, as it has in previous moments of geopolitical heat?

Our new research shows the island’s largest glaciers are losing ice faster than previously thought.

Ice cores can preserve evidence of ‘black swan’ events like pandemics and droughts, but the glaciers from which they are collected are disappearing.

Our study explores the factors which cause glacial erosion.

A glaciologist develops a lightweight method for probing the depths of Greenland’s ice sheet to answer a crucial question: How fast is it melting?

Buried beneath kilometres-thick slabs of ice are rivers and huge lakes - some of which are teeming with microbes that thrive in a world without light or oxygen.

New mapping shows how Antarctica’s huge Totten Glacier has retreated far inland, raising sea levels by more than a metre. Rising temperatures could trigger it to do so again.

Researchers in East Antarctica have surveyed an area the size of New South Wales to study the behaviour of the region’s biggest glacier - and the secrets below the ice that could speed up its melting.