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What a US military base lost under Greenland’s ice sheet reveals about the island’s real strategic importance

In the summer of 1959, a group of American soldiers began carving trenches in the Greenland ice sheet. Those trenches would become the snow-covered tunnels of Camp Century, a secret Arctic research base powered by a nuclear reactor.

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US military has a long history in Greenland, from mining during WWII to a nuclear-powered Army base built into the ice

President Donald Trump’s insistence that the U.S. will acquire Greenland “whether they like it or not” is just the latest chapter in a codependent and often complicated relationship between America and the Arctic’s largest island – one that stretches back more than a century but has recently been on the…

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Inside the secret US military base hidden 100ft underneath Greenland

A secret base underneath Greenland was home to a nuclear missile project in the 1960s

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NASA Radar Reveals Cold War 'City Under The Ice' In Greenland: 'We Didn't Know What It Was'

Camp Century was a U.S. military base that became buried by snow and ice after being abandoned in 1967.

International Business Times

Nasa scan reveals abandoned Cold War 'nuclear' city under Greenland ice

New radar device will ultimately be used to measure thickness of ice sheets in similar environments such as Antarctica

Evening Standard

'We didn't know what it was at first.' NASA aircraft uncovers site of secret Cold War nuclear missile tunnels under Greenland ice sheet

NASA scientists conducting surveys of arctic ice sheets in Greenland got an unprecedented view of an abandoned "city under the ice" built by the U.S. military during the Cold War.

Space

Ancient poppy seeds and willow wood offer clues to the Greenland ice sheet’s last meltdown and a glimpse into a warmer future

As we focused our microscope on the soil sample for the first time, bits of organic material came into view: a tiny poppy seed, the compound eye of an insect, broken willow twigs and spikemoss spores. Dark-colored spheres produced by soil fungi dominated our view.

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When Greenland was green: Ancient soil from beneath a mile of ice offers warnings for the future

400k yrs ago, Greenland was mostly ice-free as evidence suggests a forest of spruce trees covered the south.

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When Greenland was green

Frozen soil extracted during the Cold War reveals a time when Greenland was free of ice. It could happen again

Salon

When Greenland was green: Ancient soil from beneath a mile of ice offers warnings for the future

About 400,000 years ago, large parts of Greenland were ice-free. Scrubby tundra basked in the Sun’s rays on the island’s northwest highlands. Evidence suggests that a forest of spruce trees, buzzing with insects, covered the southern part of Greenland. Global sea level was much higher then, between 20 and 40…

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