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

The wind, having tumbled down 4,000 feet of elevation from the domed summit of the ice sheet hundreds of miles to the west, ...

The remote and often unforgiving surface of Greenland’s ice sheet has long been a subject of intrigue for scientists. What ...

Greenland is not interested in becoming a major mining superpower, instead prioritizing environmental standards and a limited ...

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 ...

First created during the Cold War, Project Iceworm saw the US plan to store hundreds of ballistic missiles in a system of ...

Research ships rarely brave the Greenland Sea in winter. Early this year, scientists ventured into the ice-covered waters to ...

Inside this double issue of SciAm, you’ll find black holes that burp up their stellar meals, metal detectorists that hit pay ...

Jeffery DelViscio (seen freezing above), who is Scientific American’s chief multimedia editor, spent a month on a scientific ...

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

The astonishing heat wave sent temperatures skyrocketing throughout the region for more than a week, rising more than 18 F ...

If the entire Greenland ice sheet melted, global sea levels would rise by about 24 feet. The NEGIS is how a good deal of that planet-altering flood would enter the sea.