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NASA Has Mapped The Fragmented Underbelly Of The Greenland Ice Sheet
2016-08-08 04:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
IFL Science: Thanks to a combination of climatological quirks and man-made climate change, the Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on the planet, and the Greenland Ice Sheet the worlds second largest is being obliterated at a remarkable rate. A new study, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface, reveals that something rather unfortunate is also going on beneath Greenlands ice. Using a combination of modeling and imaging techniques, scientists have produced a subglacial...
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Melting Greenland Ice Sheet To Release Cold WarEra Toxic Wastes Buried By US Military
2016-08-07 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Clean Technica: The portion of the Greenland ice sheet covering the Cold Warera US military base known as Camp Century - also known as "the city under the ice" - could start to melt by the end of the century, according to new research from CIRES (a partnership between NOAA and the University of Colorado Boulder) and others. When Camp Century does melt, there will likely be significant quantities of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), sewage, radioactive coolant, wastewater, and diesel fuel, amongst other things,...
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Cold War-era radioactive waste stored under Greenland's ice could be released as global temperatures rise
2016-08-06 01:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Global warming could release radioactive waste stored in an abandoned Cold War-era U.S. military camp deep under Greenland's ice caps if a thaw continues to spread in coming decades, scientists said on Friday. Camp Century was built in northwest Greenland in 1959 as part of U.S. research into the feasibility of nuclear missile launch sites in the Arctic, the University of Zurich said in a statement. Staff left gallons of fuel and an unknown amount of low-level radioactive coolant there when...
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Melting Ice Sheet Could Expose Abandoned U.S. Arctic Military Base
2016-08-05 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The rapidly melting Greenland ice sheet could unearth a secret, Cold War-era military base as early as next century, according to a new study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. Camp Century was built in 1959 to explore whether the U.S. could covertly deploy ballistic missiles from within the ice sheet, a mission known as Project Iceworm. By 1967, the military had abandoned the base with little clean up, expecting it would be naturally entombed as snow and ice continued to accumulate on...
How to deal with toxic waste buried in Greenland's rapidly melting ice caps
2016-08-05 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Monitor: Climate change is bringing a lot of first-time environmental challenges, as well as many unprecedented political challenges. And one such climate change challenge could be particularly political. Greenland's ice sheet is melting at a rapid pace. According to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, this significant snow and ice loss could cause buried toxic waste to resurface unexpectedly. Camp Century was a US military base built on and under the Greenland...
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