How the Greenland ice melt will expose buried US nuclear waste within decades｜Climate Change
The melting of Greenland’s ice cap is set to expose Camp Century, a US military base that hid a top-secret project along with its nuclear and other toxic waste.It was meant to be buried forever – entombed in ice. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)
But the rising temperatures mean that the cold war camp and its hazardous remains could be exposed within decades. Our Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson reports from western Greenland.
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