A larger ice formation broke off in 1986 from the Antarctic Filchner Ice Shelf when it cracked into three smaller pieces, A23a being one of them. Experts have tracked it and found that for months ...

The iceberg originally broke off from the Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986 and had been stuck in the Weddell Sea for over 30 years. With a surface area of 3,360 square kilometers, the iceberg was ...

Such colossal bergs calve today from Antarctic ice shelves, the floating extensions of land-based glaciers. If tabular icebergs roamed the ancient North Sea, ice shelves must have once bordered the ...

An iceberg the size of Chicago broke away from an Antarctic ice shelf in January — an alarming indicator of our changing climate. Fortunately, an international team of researchers found a way to turn ...

Scientists at Little Dome C recovered the oldest continuous ice core, unlocking 1.2 million years of Earth’s climate history. At the remote Little Dome C site in Antarctica, an international research ...

The ice sheets and ice shelves of Antarctica and Greenland are losing ice due to a warmer climate, which is contributing to global sea level rise. There has been an abrupt decrease in Antarctic ...

These gouges provide the first hard evidence that the British-Irish ice sheet produced bergs like these - the icy chunks were estimated to be several kilometres across and between 50-180 metres thick.