NASA satellites detected a phytoplankton bloom around Antarctic iceberg A-23A as it melted, showing how icebergs can fertilize the ocean.

Now, far from the icy seas of Antarctica, what’s left of A23a is being eaten away by warmer waters. It’s in its death throes, ...

The massive Antarctic iceberg A23a, once twice the size of London, is rapidly breaking apart in the South Atlantic after ...

The world’s largest iceberg just formed after breaking off from Antarctica, according to the European Space Agency. The giant piece of ice is shaped like an ironing board and it’s about 105 miles in ...

Disintegration of the world's oldest iceberg has implications for global sea levels and marine ecosystems.

Nearly 40 years after breaking off Antarctica, a colossal iceberg ranked among the oldest and largest ever recorded is finally crumbling apart. The world's largest ...

When a chunk of ice breaks off a glacier, that’s called calving. That can happen if the glacier gets warm or some other force makes a piece split off. The end of the glacier – where the iceberg slides ...

The largest iceberg in the world has split off into thousands of smaller chunks after colliding with an Antarctic island. The A23a iceberg, which NASA had deemed the largest in the world since 2023, ...

The world’s largest iceberg, A23, is fragmenting into smaller pieces, potentially jeopardizing both humans and the millions of penguins in the neighboring Antarctic refuge. Alarming photos snapped by ...

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 ...

Nearly 40 years after breaking off Antarctica, a colossal iceberg ranked among the oldest and largest ever recorded is finally crumbling apart in warmer waters, and could disappear within weeks.