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WHYY’s ‘The Why’: The Thwaites Glacier is melting. Here’s why the Philly region should care

The massive Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is melting.

Scientists are racing against time to figure out how it much could contribute to sea level rise and impact cites and coastlines thousands of miles away — including the Philadelphia region.

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The World’s Carolyn Beeler and StateImpact Pennsylvania reporter Susan Phillips explain on this episode of The Why.

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StateImpact Pennsylvania is a collaboration among WITF, WHYY, WPSU, and The Allegheny Front. Reporters Anne Danahy, Reid Frazier, Rachel McDevitt and Susan Phillips cover the commonwealth’s energy economy. Read their reports on this site, and hear them on public radio stations across Pennsylvania.

This collaborative project is funded, in part, through grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Wyncote Foundation, and William Penn Foundation.

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