Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Our planet is warming, and the consequences are written in the ice. In this documentary, we investigate the terrifying acceleration of the polar meltdown. Greenland is losing 275 billion gallons of water every 40 hours, while the Antarctic ice sheet is being attacked from below by warming oceans. We go into the field with glaciologists to analyze 400,000-year-old ice cores, revealing a direct link between CO2 and temperature.

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