Under a microscope, a tiny elongate poppy seed, small tan spikemoss megaspores and black soil fungus spheres found in soil recovered from under 2 miles of Greenland’s ice. Halley Mastro/University of Vermont, CC BY-ND Paul Bierman, University of Vermont and Halley...
The Greenland ice sheet is the second largest mass of ice on the planet, only surpassed by the Antarctic ice sheet. Covering an area of 1.7 million square kilometers and reaching an average thickness of 2,000 meters, it appears invulnerable. And yet, a study shows...
The second largest continuous mass of ice on earth is located on Greenland. An estimated 2.6 trillion tons of ice lie on the island. It’s hard to believe that this amount of ice can melt away at all. But the results of the new study show just how fragile this...
The American base “Camp Century” consisted of 21 tunnels dug into the ice. The installation had a total length of 3000 m. In addition, thousands of kilometres of rails for nuclear missiles and a few hundred launch pads for 600 rockets with nuclear warheads...
