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 ...

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, ...

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

The world’s biggest iceberg — a wall of ice the size of Rhode Island — is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica that’s home to millions of penguins and seals. The trillion-ton slab of ice — ...

On a special episode (first released on February 12, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Icebergs are bellwethers of environmental changes. Their formation, movement and melting offer insights into some of ...

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