Following the calving of the A-81 iceberg at the end of January 2023, the Brunt Ice Shelf is moving faster than before. It is currently moving approximately 4 meters a day towards the sea ...

Environmentalists fear for the island's rare king penguins and millions of elephant and fur seals if iceberg collides.

But Oliver Marsh, a British Antarctic Survey glaciologist who has spent four seasons working on the Brunt Ice Shelf, said none of these factors appear to have caused the break. "Calving of these ...

And there is historic evidence to show the Brunt Ice Shelf has seen similar large calving events in the past. As Professor Gudmundsson explains: “Maps drawn by Shackleton and Wordie during their ...

The world's biggest iceberg is on track to collide with a remote British island and scientists are worried penguins and seals ...

Prof Adrian Luckman has been tracking satellite images of the Brunt in recent weeks and predicted the calving. "Although the breaking off of large parts of Antarctic ice shelves is an entirely ...

There have been some enormous calving events that can destabilize ice shelves, and are a major source of uncertainty when it comes to forecasting future increases in sea levels. In 2017, an iceberg ...

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