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A 1550 square km (963 sq mi.) iceberg, designated A81 broke off Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf. A time-lapse of the 'calving ...
Gigantic iceberg breaks off George VI Ice Shelf, exposing century-old underwater ecosystem with Antarctic sponges and corals.
But after months of spinning, satellite footage has confirmed that the giant iceberg has finally released from the swirling waters. Doctor Andrew Meijers, an oceanographer at the BAS, commented ...
For the first time, scientists have collected measurements close to a giant iceberg, giving an unprecedented window into the impact of meltwater on the surrounding Southern Ocean and ecosystem.
The underbelly of massive "tabular" icebergs that dragged across the North Sea seabed between 18,000 and 20,000 years ago left behind a sequence of characteristic, comb-like grooves that were ...
Satellite images shows A68a heading towards the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. Credit: MODIS from NASA Worldview Snapshots Scientists monitoring the giant A68a iceberg from space reveal ...
The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, show that during the last ice age—about 18,000 to 20,000 years ago—huge, flat-topped icebergs broke off from glaciers covering the British ...
At 4,200 sq km in area, A68a is the world's biggest iceberg. It is slowly drifting away from Antarctica, where it calved, towards the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia. This movie was ...
to monitor the giant iceberg. He took advantage of imagery captured by IceBridge to get a different perspective. “We could see the deformation of the berg as the winds and tides moved it back an ...
Deep grooves on the ocean floor show where icebergs scraped across. Research suggests that their size would be similar to ...
UK researchers recently got the chance to view the Antarctic ice colossus known as A81 from the air. The berg is as large as Greater London. Video courtesy of the British Antarctic Survey ...
According to a recent study, the giant iceberg responsible for sinking the Titanic could have been the result of snow that fell into southwest Greenland about 100,000 years ago. The observations ...