Antarctica dispatch: Ice and ping-pong:

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 Marco gets the latest from The World’s Carolyn Beeler, who’s on a two-month research voyage to Antarctica. Carolyn says that in their rare downtime, crew members have been staging a ping-pong tournament and watching subtle changes as the sea ice re-forms.

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