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The world's biggest iceberg is on the move – and it's got the moves. The nearly 1,000-ton iceberg, known as A23a, located near Antarctica has done a twirl and spun in a circle. It's not totally ...
When massive icebergs break loose from places like Antarctica it can send tons of ice floating elsewhere, and it’s one of the ...
The iceberg first calved off the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf in West Antarctica in 1986, but it immediately ran aground on the ocean floor, remaining in place for more than 30 years.
Roughly 1,550 square miles across, the world's biggest and oldest iceberg, known as A23a, calved from the Antarctic shelf in 1986.Before its calving in 1986, the colossal iceberg hosted a Soviet ...
The world's largest iceberg, A23a, is moving into the open waters near Antarctica after being essentially stuck in place for decades. It's seen here in satellite imagery from Nov. 15.
Scientists capture stunning moment iceberg collapses into ocean 00:49. A massive slab of ice, roughly the shape of Manhattan but more than 70 times larger, has sheared off from Antarctica and ...
It is no strange sight to see icebergs break off of the Antarctic ice cap and drift away, like the gigantic sheet of ice that is currently heading for the island of South Georgia. But climate ...
Learn about the new technique being used to study cracks that have formed on Antarctica's unstable Doomsday Glacier.
A giant iceberg larger than Rhode Island is set to break off of Antarctica, British scientists announced Friday. If it occurs, it would be one of the biggest icebergs on record.
The iceberg, known as A76, following a naming convention established by the National Ice Center, naturally split from Antarctica’s Ronne Ice Shelf into the Weddell Sea through a process known as ...
SCAMBOS: Calving of icebergs happens all the time from Antarctica. No big deal. This one is large, but not really even in the top 10 since the 1960s.
A massive iceberg the size of Delaware has broken free from Antarctica and is floating in the sea. Earlier Wednesday, scientists announced that the 6,000-square-kilometer (about 2,300 square miles ...