Leaders often lose their position at the top, and that doesn't just apply to sports, weather, military or government. In this case, it refers to an iceberg called A23a. The massive 'berg was once ...

Ocean tides can trigger city-sized icebergs to break off from Antarctic ice shelves, scientists said on Thursday, offering a potential way to predict these dramatic events in the future. It is not ...

In 2021, researchers in Antarctica noticed giant cracks developing on the Brunt Ice Shelf, an enormous stretch of ice on the continent’s northwestern corner. Two years later, the fracture grew so ...

The world’s largest iceberg is “rapidly breaking up” into several large “very large chunks,” scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have said. Previously weighing nearly a trillion metric ...

Ice calving, also known as glacier calving or iceberg calving, is the breaking of ice chunks from the edge of a glacier. It is a form of ice ablation or ice disruption. It is the sudden release and ...

One of the largest icebergs in the world—which is roughly five times the area of New York City—is on the cusp of escaping from the waters around Antarctica after being stuck to the sea floor for 30 ...

These images from Copernicus Sentinel-2 show the before and after of the massive slab of ice that broke away from the Brunt Ice Shelf. The image on the left shows cracks and chasms of the ice shelf on ...

The world's biggest iceberg, A23a, ran aground earlier this year near a remote island - Copyright US District Court for the Southern District of New York/AFP/File ...

When massive blocks of ice detach from glaciers, it is known as calving. This process is one of the main ways that glaciers lose mass, and has long been a dramatic visualization of changes in ice ...