America’s Secret Ice Base Won’t Stay Frozen Forever

This story originally appeared on Atlas Obscura and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The creation of Camp Century, from the outset, was an audacious scheme. Under the thick ice of Greenland, a scant 800 miles from the North Pole, the US military built a hidden base of ice tunnels, imagined as an extensive network of railway tracks, …

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