Climate Change May Unearth Cold War-Era Nuclear Waste Stored by the U.S. in Other Countries
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A new report finds that melting ice and rising sea levels could disturb radioactive contamination left over from American…
A new report finds that melting ice and rising sea levels could disturb radioactive contamination left over from American…
This story was originally published by Hakai Magazine and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This…
https://twistedsifter.com/videos/what-happens-if-this-frozen-abandoned-nuclear-city-thaws 24 Oct 22, In an effort to stop…
This story was originally published on The Conversation and appears here under a Creative Commons license. In a tunnel 40 feet…
The U.S. military’s first attempts at land-based portable nuclear reactors didn’t work out well in terms of environmental…
In 1959, the United States built an unusual military base under the surface of the Greenland ice sheet. Camp Century was a hub…
Melting Ice Sheets Could Reveal Top Secret US Cold War Nuclear Base https://www.iflscience.com/environment/melting-ice-sheets-cou…
Climate change is turning Cold War project Camp Century into an environmental hazard in Greenland
Melting Greenland ice will release chemical and some radioactive nasties from an old US Cold War base. Expect more of this sort…
This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The creation…
This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The…
Among Hurricane Harvey’s devastating effects were environmental accidents. In Crosby, Tex., for example, a chemical plant lost…
A logistical cargo carrier drops off supplies at Camp Century in Greenland in 1959. Keystone Press Agency via ZUMAThis story…
Every year, thousands of scientific journal papers are published by researchers across the world, but only a tiny proportion…
Workers test one of a polar research station's escape hatches, Camp Century, Greenland. Image: W. Robert Moore/National…
Some of the latest papers on climate change impacts on cryosphere are shown below. First a few highlighted papers with…
The portion of the Greenland ice sheet covering the Cold War–era US military base known as Camp Century — also known as “the…
m Kalten Krieg diente das "Camp Century" als Testgelände für die Stationierung von Atomraketen. Als das US-Militär den Stützpunkt…
Anthrax isn’t the only nasty thing climate change is exposing. A secret, contaminated Cold War–era American military post…
The rapidly melting Greenland ice sheet could unearth a secret, Cold War-era military base as early as next century, according…
When the U.S. military abandoned Camp Century, a complex of tunnels dug into the ice of northwest Greenland, in the mid-1960s…
Camp Century, a U.S. military base built within the Greenland Ice Sheet in 1959, doubled as a top-secret The post Melting ice…
With temperatures rising across the globe, the poles are being hit particularly hard. Melting Arctic sea ice could wreak plenty…
During the Cold War, the US Army studied the feasibility of launching ballistic missiles from within Greenland’s ice sheet.