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, Jon Miller and Stephanie Swart
January 23, 2026
