Massive Iceberg – 10 Times the Size of San Francisco – Breaks Off Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica
A giant iceberg, approximately 1.5 times the size of Greater Paris [or about 10 times the size of San Francisco], broke off from the northern…
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Alphabet Soup: Antarctic Icebergs Galore
The waters off of South Georgia—a remote island in the southern Atlantic Ocean—have become an alphabet soup. Pieces from the once-mighty iceberg A68-A continue to…
A-68A: Is This the End of One of the Largest Icebergs of All Time?
Satellite images have revealed that the once colossal A-68A iceberg has had yet another shattering experience. Several large cracks were spotted in the berg last…
“Missing Link” Found in Process That Leads to an Ice Age on Earth
New study unravels long-standing climate mystery and provides insight into how our planet may change in the future. Scientists claim to have found the “missing…
Seawater Cutting Like a Knife Through Enormous Iceberg: A-68A Being Sliced to Pieces
Seawater has been cutting like a knife through A-68A, the enormous Antarctic iceberg drifting in the southern Atlantic Ocean. On January 11, 2021, the Visible…
Huge Chunk of Ice Breaks Off Giant Iceberg As It Drifts Alarmingly Close to South Georgia
A large block of ice has broken off the northern tip of the A-68A iceberg as seen in new images captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3…
Giant Iceberg on Collision Course With South Georgia Could Wreak Havoc [Video]
The giant A-68A iceberg could strike land this month – wreaking havoc near the waters of the South Georgia Island. Since its ‘birth’ in 2017,…
Hit or Miss? Gigantic Iceberg Bears Down on South Georgia Island
An enormous iceberg, called A-68A, has made headlines over the past weeks as it drifts towards South Georgia in the Southern Ocean. New images, captured…
Breaking the Ice on Iceberg Melting and Lake Ice Formation
A better understanding of iceberg melting and lake ice formation could provide new indicators of climate change. Eric Hester has spent the last three…
Massive Iceberg A-68A Closing In on South Georgia
Iceberg A-68A made headlines in July 2017 when the Delaware-sized block of ice broke from the Larsen C Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula. The…
Massive Iceberg on Collision Course With South Georgia
The colossus iceberg that split from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf on July 12, 2017, is on a collision course with South Georgia. Over the…
Tracking Colossal Iceberg – Larger Than Delaware – During a 3-Year, 650-Mile Journey
The colossus iceberg that split from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf on July 12, 2017, is now in the open waters of the South Atlantic…
Icebergs as a Source of Nutrients – Climate Change Could Lead to More Iron Fertilization
Will climate change lead to more iron fertilization in the ocean? Sea creatures, whether large or small, need nutrients. The supply mechanism delivering these nutrients…
NASA IceBridge Flight Spots Massive Antarctic Iceberg B-46
NASA’s Operation IceBridge on Wednesday, November 7, flew over an iceberg that is three times the size of Manhattan – the first time anyone has…
Operation IceBridge Spots 2 Strangely Shaped Icebergs
Operation IceBridge, NASA’s longest-running aerial survey of polar ice, flew over the northern Antarctic Peninsula on October 16, 2018. During the survey, designed to assess…
NASA Image of an Iceberg from Pine Island Glacier
In September 2017, a new iceberg calved from Pine Island Glacier—one of the main outlets where the West Antarctic Ice Sheet flows into the ocean….
Operation IceBridge Spots the Bluest of Ice
Acquired on November 29 by Operation IceBridge during a flight to Victoria Land, this image shows an iceberg floating in Antarctica’s McMurdo Sound. The part…
Delaware Sized Iceberg Splits Off From Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf
NASA’s Aqua satellite and the NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite discover a massive iceberg splitting off from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf. An iceberg…