new video loaded: Setting Foot on the Melting Thwaites Glacier
Bad weather ​delayed expedition scientists’​ ​efforts to set up camp on Thwaites Glacier ​in Antarctica ​and take measurements ​to determine how quickly it is melting. After the skies cleared, our journalists​, Raymond Zhong and Chang W. Lee​, took us along for their first steps on Thwaites.
By Raymond Zhong, Chang W. Lee, Christina Thornell and Jon Miller
January 23, 2026
