During the Cold War, the U.S. built Camp Century under Greenland's glacier as a covert military base. Initially posed as a research facility, the base suffered from a nuclear reactor leak and unstable ...

Beneath the great white continent, several kilometers away, numerous active volcanoes, such as Mount Erebus, could accelerate ...

Documents detailed the true extent of Camp Century and the incredible American ingenuity that brought it to life.

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The GLIMS initiative has created a unique glacier inventory, storing information about the extent and rates of change of all the world's mountain glaciers and ice caps. The GLIMS Glacier Database was ...

Cryospheric science is the interdisciplinary study of permafrost, snow and ice, primarily on the surface of the Earth, but also on other planets and moons. The cryosphere is an integral part of ...

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During the Cold War, the U.S. built a military base under the ice in Greenland, hidden from the Soviets. It was eventually abandoned, but its most lasting legacy is a pivotal role in climate science.