The natural world is sending urgent distress signals, and a remarkable group of scientists and conservationists are answering the call.
Miles O’Brien joins an international scientific expedition aboard an icebreaker sailing to the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, the so-called Doomsday Glacier, which holds enough ice to raise global sea levels by 10 feet and is collapsing faster than any glacier on Earth.
O’Brien embeds with researchers racing to gather data never-before-collected and explores one of the most controversial proposals in climate science: building a massive underwater sea curtain to hold back the warm ocean currents eating away at the ice.
The science is hard, the setbacks are real and the stakes could not be higher. But the people doing it refuse to give up.
And that’s not all. On Thursday, February 25, 2026, O’Brien and Dr. David Holland joined us on a livestream from Antarctica as they discussed the rare data researchers managed to collect and its findings.
Go behind the scenes with host Elise Hu
The “Resolve to Solve with Miles O’Brien Podcast” is the official companion podcast of the documentary series.
In his 30+ years of experience as a science reporter, Miles claims that scientists’ reaction to the “sea curtain solution” to the melting Thwaites (or Doomsday) Glacier is the most vehement he has ever seen.
In this podcast episode, he goes into the reasons behind this, how a 10-foot rise in sea levels would change our world and a peek into life onboard a ship at the bottom of the world.
