Antarctica is losing ice quickly, in part because of climate change. Massive calving events, such as the one that formed the ...

However, he noted a significant increase in the frequency of iceberg calving events in Antarctica in recent years. “This is primarily driven by increased melting of ice shelves from below by the ...

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

As Arctic temperatures rise, marine-terminating glaciers—especially in places like Svalbard—are undergoing rapid retreat and ...

A giant iceberg named A23a breaks free after months trapped near Antarctica, setting sail into the Southern Ocean with ...

About the size of Rhode Island, the iceberg known as A23a got stuck in an ocean vortex this summer, spinning in place for ...

About the size of Rhode Island, the iceberg known as A23a got stuck in an ocean vortex this summer, spinning in place for ...

Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey shared a new press release that details the latest movement by the Earth's ...

Traffic in the vicinity of Antarctica has become a bit trickier now that A23a, the world's oldest and largest iceberg, has broken free of its watery trap north of the South Orkney Islands and is ...

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 ...