Documenting the Toxic Remains of an Abandoned WWII Base in Greenland

The Inuits in the region call them “American Flowers,” but in reality they’re old, rusted, leaking fuel containers; ten thousand of them scattered across the otherwise-pristine Greenland landscape on what used to be an Air Force base during World War II. The base--its leaking and rusted barrels, dilapidated cars, and crumbling asbestos-laden buildings--is the subject […]