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Thanks to a secret Cold War project, researchers found fossilized plants 4,500 feet under Greenland’s ice sheet – Business Insider Australia

Fossilized plants found deep below the ice suggest the ice sheet disappeared at least once in the last million years.

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  • Greenland’s ice sheet disappeared at least once in the last million years, a new study found.
  • The discovery came after fossilized plants were found deep below the ice.
  • The fossils were collected as part of a Cold War project but weren’t analyzed until recently.
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During the Cold War, US Army scientists planned to hide hundreds of nuclear warheads underneath the Greenland ice sheet in a covert mission known as “Project Iceworm.”
It was 1960 and tensions…

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