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Nasa scans reveal abandoned city buried under ice in Greenland
1 month, 1 week ago

Nasa scans reveal abandoned city buried under ice in Greenland

The Independent  

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NASA scans discover abandoned Cold War-era ‘secret city’ under Greenland's ice sheet; Here's what scientists expect next
1 month, 2 weeks ago

NASA scans discover abandoned Cold War-era ‘secret city’ under Greenland's ice sheet; Here's what scientists expect next

Hindustan Times  

An abandoned “city” from the Cold War has been discovered beneath the ice in a radar image captured by NASA scientists in Greenland. The deserted city belongs to Camp Century, a military installation constructed in 1959 after excavating a network of tunnels below the Greenland ice sheet's near-surface layer. Here's what researchers expect next with NASA discovery The goal of …

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When Greenland was green: Ancient soil from beneath a mile of ice offers warnings for the future
1 year, 5 months ago

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

The Hindu  

About 400,000 years ago, large parts of Greenland were ice-free. At that time, Earth and its early humans were going through one of the longest interglacial periods since ice sheets first covered the high latitudes 2.5 million years ago. The drilling took place at Camp Century, one of the military’s most unusual bases – it was nuclear-powered and made up …

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Scientists Found Perfectly Persevered Leaves Miles Under Greenland Ice. They Tell an Important Climate Change Lesson
3 years, 9 months ago

Scientists Found Perfectly Persevered Leaves Miles Under Greenland Ice. They Tell an Important Climate Change Lesson

News 18  

In 1963, inside a covert U.S. military base in northern Greenland, a team of scientists began drilling down through the Greenland ice sheet. Over the last million years, Earth’s climate was punctuated by relatively short warm periods, typically lasting about 10,000 years, called interglacials, when there was less ice at the poles and sea level was higher. The Greenland ice …

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Greenland: Plants nearly a MILE under ice sheet suggest area was once ice-free
3 years, 9 months ago

Greenland: Plants nearly a MILE under ice sheet suggest area was once ice-free

Daily Mail  

Plant fossils, twigs and leaves have been discovered under a mile of ice on Greenland, suggesting the area was free of ice within the last million years. But a new study shows that within the last million years it melted off and became covered with green tundra, perhaps like this view of eastern Greenland, on the coast near the ocean …

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