When The World’s environment reporter Carolyn Beeler stepped onto an ice-breaker at the end of January, she wasn’t sure if she and the scientists would ever get to their destination: Thwaites Glacier, a massive, fast-melting piece of ice in West Antarctica. Today we join her for the journey to a place that could change coastlines around the world, and see something scientists were not expecting.
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