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

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 ...

A larger ice formation broke off in 1986 from the Antarctic Filchner Ice Shelf when it cracked into ... where it will encounter warmer waters that would break it into smaller icebergs until ...

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

A chunk of ice the size of the Isle of Man and bigger that the US state of Connecticut has started to break ... Ice Shelf is a broad plate of permanent floating ice on the southwest Antarctic ...

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

After first calving, or breaking off, from Antarctica's Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986, the iceberg spent some 30 years grounded in the seafloor of the Weddell Sea. In 2020, A23a escaped and began its ...