The Golden Age Of Offbeat Arctic Research

Enlarge / At the US Army’s Camp Century on the Greenland ice sheet, an Army truck equipped with a railroad wheel conversion rides on 1,300 feet of track under the snow. (credit: Robert W. Gerdel Papers, Ohio State University) In recent years, the Arctic has become a magnet for climate change anxiety, with scientists nervously monitoring the Greenland ice sheet for signs of melting and fretting over rampant environmental degradation.

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  • The Golden Age of offbeat Arctic research
    In recent years, the Arctic has become a magnet for climate change anxiety, with scientists nervously monitoring the Greenland ice sheet for signs of melting and fretting over rampant ...
    09/7/2024 - 5:12 pm | View Link
  • The Golden Age of offbeat Arctic research
    Arctic military imagination predates the Cold War. In 1943, that imagination spawned the Kee Bird—a mystical creature. An early description appears in a poem by A/C Warren M. Kniskern published ...
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