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The US Army tried portable nuclear power at remote bases 60 years ago – it didn't go well
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPart of a portable nuclear power plant arrives at Camp Century in 1960. Bettmann Archive/Getty...
Inside the US Army’s failed nuclear ice lair in Cold War Greenland
Military Times via Yahoo News· 6 months agoAs Soviet ICBM tests and the launch of Sputnik in the 1950s added intensity to the Cold War, the...
When Greenland was green: Ancient soil from beneath a mile of ice offers warnings for the future
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 6 months agoWater and sediment pour off the melting margin of the Greenland ice sheet. Jason Edwards/Photodisc...
Ancient leaves preserved under a mile of Greenland's ice – and lost in a freezer for years – hold...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoRemnants of ancient Greenland tundra were preserved in soil beneath the ice sheet. Andrew Christ and...
Flying saucers to mind control: 24 declassified military & CIA secrets
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAir Force Avrocar - Project 1794 Government and military secrets can range from terrifying to...
Long-lost Greenland ice core suggests potential for disastrous sea level rise
CNN via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA recently-discovered ice core taken from beneath Greenland’s ice sheet decades ago reveals that...
Greenland's ice sheets aren't as old—or as resilient—as scientists expected
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 11 months agoGreenland’s continental glacier covers about 80 percent of the 836,3000-square-mile land mass. As...
Lost samples from a secret army base reveal that Greenland's ice vanished 416,000 years ago. That...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 11 months agoLyle B. Hansen and Chester Langway inspecting the sub-ice core from the Project Iceworm...
Buried Nuclear Waste May Soon Rise From the Grave
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo News· 4 months agoClimate Change Impacts Global Nuclear Waste SitesPeter Zelei Images - Getty Images During the Cold War, the U.S. stashed nuclear waste—or accidentally...
Greenland was once actually green, study says. That's an ominous climate change scenario.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 11 months agoSome 400,000 years ago, Greenland was, well, green. In fact, it was an ice-free tundra landscape –...