Subglacial tunnel is world’s most claustrophobic lab

ScienceNordic : Located under 200 meters of ice, a laboratory carved in a Norwegian glacier houses an international team of scientists. The subglacial lab, which is owned and operated by the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate , allows the group a unique opportunity to study how glaciers move and how climate change affects large ice sheets such as those of Greenland and Antarctica. But the work involves more than just research—the scientists also have to dig and maintain the ice tunnels, which constantly threaten to close up. To chronicle their experiences, they have been blogging on ScienceNordic directly from under the ice. In her 26 March post, Coline Mollaret called her adventure the “struggle against time and glacier power.”