Antarctica's Melting

Environmental & Science Education

TIMES

Climate Change

Earth Science

Earth Systems

Geology

Edward Hessler

Justin Rowlatt, the BBC's chief environmental correspondent, writes that "glaciologists have described Thwaites Glacier as the  'most important' glacier in the world, the 'riskiest' glacier, even the 'doomsday' glacier."

Rowlatt reports on his visit to learn about the work of scientists studying glacial change who are members of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (United Kingdom and the United States) in this film (2m 59s)