Satellite image of Iceberg A-23A captured on November 28, 2023, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Terra satellite. Stuck on the seafloor for…
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Satellite image of icebergs trapped in fast ice east of East Antarctica’s West Ice Shelf acquired on October 18, 2023, with the Operational Land Imager-2…
Image of iceberg D-30A at the edge of Clarence Island captured on September 6, 2023, by the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) sensor on NASA’s…
Chasm-1 remained dormant for many years but has now created a new iceberg. Credit: BAS Following the calving of the A-81 iceberg at the end…
These images from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite show the before and after of the massive slab of ice that broke away from the Brunt Ice…
Copernicus Sentinel-2 image of the Halloween Crack in Antarctica. The image was captured on October 25, 2022. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2022), processed…
Iceberg A-68A thickness. 2017 – 2021. Researchers recently chronicled the death throes of A-68A, one of the world’s largest-known icebergs. As soon as an iceberg…
March 6, 2022 After nearly pummeling the vulnerable Brunt Ice Shelf, a flock of Antarctic icebergs settles in for the austral winter. In summer 2019,…
A-68A’s position on December 17, 2020. Credit: British Antarctic Survey/ESA In July 2017, a giant iceberg, named A-68, snapped off Antarctica’s Larsen-C ice shelf and…
The A68A iceberg with some smaller parts of ice that have broken off around it (November 21, 2020). Credit: MODIS image from NASA Worldview Snapshots…
Iceberg A-76, measures around 4320 sq km in size (170 km in length and 25 km wide) – currently making it the largest berg in…
In July 2017, the Larsen C ice shelf along the eastern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula spawned A-68A—one of the planet’s largest icebergs on record.…
March 1, 2021 A large iceberg finally split from the Antarctic ice shelf, but another piece stubbornly hangs on. Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf finally calved…
New radar images, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, show a 1270 sq km iceberg breaking free and moving away rapidly from the floating ice…
February 12, 2021. (Click image for high-resolution view.) The waters off of South Georgia—a remote island in the southern Atlantic Ocean—have become an alphabet soup.…
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…
January 11, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view.) Seawater has been cutting like a knife through A-68A, the enormous Antarctic iceberg drifting in the southern…
[embedded content] The giant A-68A iceberg could strike land this month – wreaking havoc near the waters of the South Georgia Island. Since its ‘birth’…
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…
November 5, 2020 Iceberg A-68A made headlines in July 2017 when the Delaware-sized block of ice broke from the Larsen C Ice Shelf on the…