Antarctica

PARIS: A huge iceberg, the world's largest, has broken off from an ice shelf in Antarctica and is floating through the Weddell Sea, the European Space Agency said. © New Straits Times Press (M) BhdRead More

A huge iceberg, the world’s largest, has broken off from an ice shelf in Antarctica and is floating through the Weddell Sea, the European Space Agency (ESA) said.  Called A-76 and roughly the shape of Manhattan but more than 70 times bigger, it was picked up on satellite images and…

European space agency The largest iceberg in the world has formed in Antarctica, after breaking off an ice shelf. The largest iceberg in the world has formed in Antarctica, after breaking off an ice shelf. The giant slab of ice is about 4320 square kilometres, according to the European Space…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand plans to rebuild its Antarctic base and spend billions more on welfare payments as part of a spending program aimed at lifting the economy out of a coronavirus slump. The government on Thursday unveiled its annual budget, which indicated the economy is doing…

WEBSITE OF THE YEAR APP OF THE YEAR World 20 May, 2021 01:53 AM2 minutes to read The finger-shaped iceberg is about 4320sq km in size. Photo / ESA An iceberg twice the size of Stewart Island has broken off from Antarctica into the Weddell Sea, becoming the largest afloat…

Home News The humongous chunk of ice calved from the western side of the Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica. (Image credit: ESA/Earth Observation) An enormous iceberg, a little bigger than the state of Rhode Island, has broken off of Antarctica. The finger-shaped chunk of ice, which is roughly 105 miles…

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All products featured on Bon Appétit are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I spent three days in Antarctica aboard the Belgica recently, well, in the only way that’s ever going to happen for me: with…

A massive collaborative research project covered in the journal Nature this week offers projections to the year 2100 of future sea-level rise from all sources of land ice, offering the most complete projections created to date. "This work synthesizes improvements over the last decade in climate models, ice sheet and…

At the Seismological Society of America's 2021 Annual Meeting, researchers shared how they are using fiber optic cable to detect the small earthquakes that occur in ice in Antarctica. The results could be used to better understand the movement and deformation of the ice under changing climate conditions, as well…