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Setting Foot on the Melting Thwaites Glacier
new video uploaded: Stepping on the Melting Thwaites Glacier
Bad weather delayed expedition scientists’ efforts to set up camp on Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier and take measurements to determine how fast the glacier was melting. After the skies cleared, our journalists Raymond Zhong and Chang W. Lee took us along on their first steps into Thwaites.
Written by: Raymond Zhong, Chang W. Lee, Christina Thornell and Jon Miller
January 23, 2026
