Scientists Discovered A Ticking Time Bomb Throughout Alaska’s Underground
The Shack Descends Into A Hidden Laboratory
That red shack is not a freezer. It is a tunnel 40 feet below the ground, called the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL). Since the 1960s, scientists have studied the Alaskan terrain there.

Kate Ramsayer/NASA
Kate Ramsayer/NASA
CRREL labs exist across the U.S., studying everything from water conservation to military engineering. But in Alaska, scientists made a disturbing discovery.