The remote and often unforgiving surface of Greenland’s ice sheet has long been a subject of intrigue for scientists. What lies beneath the thick layers of snow and ice has been largely a mystery, ...

In two recent studies, researchers suggest a weakening ocean current system is to blame for a persistent cold spot in the ...

The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

A climate tipping point is a critical threshold where a small environmental change can lead to dramatic and often ...

A new analysis says human-caused climate change had a key role in the record-breaking heat wave in Iceland and Greenland in ...

Inside this double issue of SciAm, you’ll find black holes that burp up their stellar meals, metal detectorists that hit pay dirt, hope for psychopathy, the truth about testosterone and a consumer gui ...

The findings matched with data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service showing May this year to be the second-warmest globally on record ...