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Resolve to Solve with Miles O'Brien

Inside Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier

Season 1 Episode 6

Thwaites Glacier is melting faster than any glacier on Earth, and its collapse could raise global sea levels by feet, not inches. Miles O’Brien sails to Antarctica aboard a Korean icebreaker with scientists drilling through 3,000 feet of ice to reach the water below and explore a radical idea: an underwater curtain that might buy the world some time before the “Doomsday Glacier” gives way.

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