On January 13, when an iceberg the size of Chicago broke away ... in would have been carried on currents, slipping in underneath the ice shelf,” says Copley. That tracks, as oceanographers ...

An iceberg is a piece of freshwater ice that has detached from a glacier and is floating in the ocean. Icebergs form when pieces of ice break off the end of an ice shelf or a glacier that flows ...

In January 2025, researchers on the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s R/V Falkor (too) had to divert their plans after an iceberg roughly the size of Chicago broke away from ... The findings help researchers ...

The world's largest iceberg has run aground in shallow ... eroding the rock and ice. "If the ice underneath is rotten - eroded by salt - it'll crumble away under stress and maybe drift somewhere ...

Little is known about life underneath Antarctica. On January 13, 2025, iceberg A-84, which is roughly the size of Chicago, broke from the George VI Ice Shelf, a giant floating glacier attached to ...

Beneath a giant iceberg, a whole ecosystem never seen before. Iceberg A-84 broke off from Antarctica and revealed a thriving community of sea creatures underneath ... George VI Ice Shelf on ...

But this newborn iceberg, dubbed A-84 ... Icebergs are pieces of freshwater ice more than 50 feet long that have broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and are floating freely in open water.

Scientists monitoring the giant A68a iceberg from space reveal that a huge amount of freshwater was released ... In July 2017, A68a calved off the Larsen-C Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula ...

In large part thanks to being in the right place at the right time, researchers discovered a thriving marine ecosystem underneath a 19-miles iceberg after it cracked off the ice sheet off the coast of ...

On 13 January, an iceberg the size of Chicago named A-84 broke away from the George VI Ice Shelf, one of the massive floating glaciers attached to the Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet. “ ...