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Melting Greenland Ice Sheet To Release Cold WarEra Toxic Wastes Buried By US Military

2016-08-07 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Clean Technica: The portion of the Greenland ice sheet covering the Cold Warera US military base known as Camp Century - also known as "the city under the ice" - could start to melt by the end of the century, according to new research from CIRES (a partnership between NOAA and the University of Colorado Boulder) and others. When Camp Century does melt, there will likely be significant quantities of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), sewage, radioactive coolant, wastewater, and diesel fuel, amongst other things,...

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