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?

Greenland's ice sheet melted 17 times faster than the past average during a May heatwave that also hit Iceland, the scientific network World Weather Attribution (WWA) said in a report Wednesday. And ...

Sometimes, discoveries are made by mistake. Recently, NASA ended up finding a 60-year-old structure hidden under the ice in ...

At 656,000 square miles, the Greenland ice sheet currently covers around 80% of the island territory.To put that into perspective, it's about three times the size of Texas. Drill dome and camp for ...

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 ...