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As he ends his two-month long voyage to Thwaites glacier, Jeff Goodell wrestles with the awesomeness, the strangeness and the power of what he saw on his journey to Antarctica
Scientists aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer watch a 25-mile-wide section of ice crumble into the sea
“You like carbon dioxide so much?” one researcher mused. "Try putting a plastic bag over your head and see how that works out.”
Retrieving good mud from the bottom of the ocean is just the beginning of telling a story about Antarctica
The great ping pong smackdown
Why mapping the sea floor in front of this glacier is so important
"For me, it's hard to envisage something so big, so permanent, so vast, to be as fragile as it is," scientist says in regards to first contact with Thwaites glacier
A conversation with chief scientist Rob Larter about the existential guessing game at the bottom of the world
Even minor mishaps can have major repercussions on an isolated icebreaker at the end of the world
What do you do in a medical crisis when you're 1,000 nautical miles from civilization?
