The ice at the end of the world is disappearing. Patagonia, in the very south of Argentina, is home to the largest ice masses in the southern hemisphere outside of Antarctica. But here, too, climate change is eating away.
In early March 2026, scientists from Dresden University of Technology (TUD) and the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) in Leipzig returned from a four-week expedition. In their luggage, they had new measurement data from the eastern edge of the southern Patagonian Ice Field to the Atlantic coast.
