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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 ...
On her first dedicated scientific voyage to Antarctica in March, the Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina found the area sea-ice ...
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.
World's largest iceberg on the move after dislodging from ocean floor 04:09. The world's biggest iceberg — three time the size of New York City — could drift toward a remote island where a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Researchers were working off the coast of Antarctica when it happened: A gigantic iceberg about 19 miles long cracked off the ice sheet on Jan. 13, revealing a swath of ocean that had not seen ...
The icebergs carry large amounts of stone fragments that glaciers had broken off the Antarctic continent. When the iceberg melts, the debris sinks to the ocean floor.