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.
We know it is the most northerly village in Greenland – many say in the world. But in the tiny fjord settlement of Siorapaluq, they question many things about their very existence these days.
Nearly half of Greenland’s ice sheet began melting this week after an unprecedented warm spell hit the Arctic region. Temperatures climbed more than 40 degrees above average, causing an estimated 2 billion tons of ice loss. Ted Scambos, senior research scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Earth Science Observation Center, joined CBSN to discuss.
