New timelapse satellite imagery showed the former largest iceberg on Earth steadily breaking apart from September to November ...
A23a is drifting in waters where the temperature is well above freezing, and is ‘rapidly breaking up’ into several ‘very large chunks’.
Though still the largest iceberg currently at sea, its surface area has declined considerably in just two months. According to iceberg data from the U.S. National Ice Center (USNIC), A-23A lost more ...
1,000,000,000,000 tons. That’s one trillion, with a “t” at the start. And that’s how much A23a, aka the world’s largest iceberg, weighs. It spans across about 1,418-sqaure-miles, or about three times ...
SOUTH GEORGIA ISLAND — The world's largest and most enduring iceberg is splintering into smaller pieces, to the point that it's no longer the biggest chunk of ice floating in the oceans. The shrinking ...
It's been a long and unusual journey for the world's largest iceberg, known as A23a, but it's ending in a relatively usual way: breaking apart and melting in the warmer waters of the South Atlantic ...
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The iceberg, known as A23a, has been on a journey following the current into warmer waters for months. Now, it has begun the predicted and natural... It's been a long and unusual journey for the world ...
It's been a long and unusual journey for the world's largest iceberg, known as A23a, but it's ending in a relatively usual way: breaking apart and melting in the warmer waters of the South Atlantic ...