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.

What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...

Camp Century, constructed in 1959 by the US Army ... and work at the facility did contribute to modern climate models thanks to ice core drilling – but its true purpose was Project Iceworm ...

Camp Century itself was pivotal to scientists’ understanding of climate change. In the 1960s, scientists extracted an ice core there, a frozen soil sample that is still studied to this day for ...

By 1962, core samples indicated that liquid waste ... Hidden dangers resurface from Camp Century’s ice depths In 2016, a team of scientists revisiting the site of Camp Century delivered a ...

situated east of Pituffik Space Base. When built, Camp Century was publicized as a demonstration for affordable ice-cap military outposts and a base for scientific research. - Source: Wikipedia ...

Alex Gardner, a cryospheric scientist at NASA’s jet propulsion laboratory said: ‘We were looking for the bed of the ice and out pops Camp Century. We didn’t know what it was at first.

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create a secret military base located in the far north of Greenland: Camp Century, almost a real town ...