Today, as Greenland once again becomes a strategic prize, history seems poised to repeat itself. Staying with the Polar Inuit ...
In 1951, Jean Malaurie was dogsledding along northwestern Greenland when he saw a city under construction. It had not been there three months earlier.
Some of America’s military bases are shrouded in secrecy and debate. From strategic positioning to advanced technology ...
Listen to Paul Bierman, an expert on Greenland’s ice, talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the history of the island ...
While flying over Greenland and using advanced radar technology to map the continent's ice, NASA scientists discovered something incredible, an abandoned Cold-War-era U.S. military base 100 feet under ...
In the spring of 1941, as Europe burned, a secret agreement turned the world’s largest island into a frontline of[...] ...
A forgotten Cold War military base, Camp Century, buried under Greenland's ice, is now resurfacing due to climate change. This 'city under the ice,' once a secret nuclear project, holds significant ...
Greenland's natural resources and proximity to Russia and China have made it a valuable strategic asset to the US military since World War II.
This episode of The Big Picture focuses on the secret construction of an air base near Thule, #Greenland in the early 1950s. Built during the Cold War, the base was to provide the U.S. a home for long ...
A failed US plan to hide missiles under the ice now provides vital clues for understanding Greenland’s future and climate ...
In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, geologist Paul Bierman explains the history of what happened to Camp Century, a secret Arctic base.