The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace. Since 2015 ...

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

The United Nations has designated 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation to highlight the importance of glaciers and ensure that those ...

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

An unprecedented Arctic heat wave caused record high temperatures in Greenland and Iceland, raising major concerns among ...

Beneath Greenland's massive ice sheets is a land that's been hidden for millions of years, never before seen by humans. Today ...

When visiting Godrevy beach on the north Cornish coast, most people look out to sea at the lighthouse, surfers and seals ...

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

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

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

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

Fossil corals in the Seychelles show sea level rose rapidly in the past, warning that today’s warming could trigger even faster ocean rise.