Melting ice sheet could expose frozen Cold War-era hazardous waste
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Published in Geophysical Research Letters · View the paper (DOI)
Climate change is threatening to expose the hazardous waste from an abandoned US military base in Greenland's ice sheet, posing a significant environmental hazard. The site contains toxic pollutants and radioactive waste that could disrupt marine ecosystems if the ice melts.
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- Melting ice sheet could expose frozen Cold War-era hazardous waste York University · Aug 4, 2016 · first to report
- Melting ice sheet could release frozen Cold War-era waste