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Forgotten samples from Greenland's Cold War base reveal warmer summers during ancient ice-free period

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Forgotten samples from Greenland's Cold War base reveal warmer summers during ancient ice-free period

The site of a former U.S. military base in Greenland was ice-free at a time when summers were a few degrees warmer than today, according to a new University at Buffalo–led study of ancient sediment recovered from beneath the site in the 1960s.

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