Crossing the Drake passage in West Antarctica

The World

This week, The World is re-visiting reporter Carolyn Beeler's journey to Antarctica, where she embedded with a team of researchers racing to understand the fate of West Antarctica, which is melting fast, and could add a whopping 11 feet to global sea levels. Today we hear her dispatch from the tumultuous Drake Passage, a notoriously choppy sliver of ocean between South America and Antarctica.

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