Greenland’s ice-covered landscape looks like an immovable block on satellite maps. Yet the story beneath its center suggests ...

Camp Century was built by the U.S. within the ice sheet in 1959, according to the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder (CIRES).

Scientists now have a clearer picture of Camp Century, an abandoned U.S. military base long hidden under the ice in Greenland, thanks to a NASA research team's good luck.

After the camp was decommissioned in 1967, the US military failed to remove the facility's waste and infrastructure, assuming that it would eventually be entombed in Greenland's ice sheet over the ...

Those flights used conventional ground-penetrating radar, which points straight down and produces a 2D profile of the ice sheet. In that view (map below), Camp Century’s solid structures appear ...

Camp Century was initially drawn up to be three times the size of Denmark (which owns Greenland), sitting at 52,000 square miles (about the size of Louisiana) and outfitted with 2,000 firing ...

The waste buried at Camp Century is becoming more of a threat now that the Greenland ice sheet is melting due to global warming. Greenland, which is home to about 56,500 people, is a semi ...

The melting today on Greenland’s ice sheet is roughly equal to the greatest rates of ice loss in the last 12,000 years, a new study shows. But if greenhouse gas emissions are not curbed, the ice ...

Camp Century was also designed to carry out a proof of concept for a far more expansive plan that would have built a nuclear missile base underneath the ice sheet. Water is seen on part of the ...

A view of the main trench to the permanent camp at Camp Century, Greenland, in the 1950s. The U.S. Army base was abandoned in 1967, after Greenland's ice sheet began shifting and the Army realized ...

It is not true now, but the potential exists about 80 years from now. Camp Century is a now-abandoned U.S. base that was built on the ice sheet in northern Greenland in 1959. Its mission, publicly ...