It seems a story straight from a Cold War thriller - only the case of Camp Century is 100 per cent fact.
Now
scientists have discovered the secretive military base in Greenland
created by Danish and US governments during the 1950s and thought to be
locked under the ice forever could be exposed by climate change.
A
recent study published in the journal of Geophysical Research Letters
found the submerged city could be exposed within 75 years under a
"business as usual" approach to global warming.
It means
low-level radioactive material, sewage, diesel and other waste that
governments assumed would be locked up indefinitely in the ice could be
leaked into the surrounding environment with no plan as to who is
responsible.
"Two generations ago, people were interring waste in different
areas of the world, and now climate change is modifying those sites,"
lead author William Colgan, of Canada's York University told the
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES).
"It's a new breed of political challenge we have to think about."
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