Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and ...

"It's exciting to see A23a on the move again after periods of being stuck," oceanographer Andrew Meijers said.

Most previous megabergs have broken up roughly near South Georgia, which is probably only a month or so away from the berg’s ...

The iceberg, which is currently the largest in the world, will eventually melt and break up as ... A-23A initially broke off from the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf near the Antarctic Peninsula but ...

The vast Antarctic Ice Sheet holds more than half of Earth's freshwater. In several places around the continent, the ice ...

The "megaberg" A23a is on the move again after spinning in one spot for months on end. This is the ice slab's second great escape in as many years after being stuck in place for the first 37 years of ...

Of course, this is just a blip in the long, storied life of A23a. After first calving, or breaking off, from Antarctica's ...

A23a weighs almost a trillion tons, and, as of August, spanned 1,418-square-miles (3,672 square kilometers), making it twice ...

Traffic in the vicinity of Antarctica ... Antarctica's Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986, after which it ran aground on the seabed where it remained in chilly storage until it at last floated off into ...

Iceberg A23a weighs nearly 1 trillion tons and is twice the size of Greater London, according to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). A23a calved from the Antarctica's Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986.

Nov. 8, 2024 — New research reveals for the first time how a major Antarctic ice shelf has been subjected to increased melting by warming ocean waters over the last four decades. Scientists say ...

NASA's Scientific Balloon Program has returned to Antarctica's icy expanse to kick off the annual Antarctic ... Foundation's McMurdo Station on the Ross Ice Shelf. "Antarctica is our cornerstone ...