As the Cold War intensified at the end of the 1950s, the U.S. Army devised a plan to build a sprawling launch site for nuclear missiles — underneath the ice in Greenland. Dubbed "Project Iceworm," the ...

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

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

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

A patch of the Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland is cooling while much of the world warms. The origin of this "cold blob ...

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

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

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

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

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 A ...

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.