The edges are still pointed, and have not yet been worn down by the ocean waves. The picture was taken last week by scientists on a Nasa research plane. Such objects are not unknown, however ...

With a surface area more than twice that of Greater London's, A23a is the biggest iceberg on the planet, having calved from ...

Picture the sprawling city of Los Angeles. Then triple that size. That’s about the magnitude of the world’s largest iceberg, ...

A23a, however, didn’t just gallop off to freedom. It got stuck in the Weddell Sea for three decades. In 2020, it started to move north, but the journey has been halting. “It’s exciting to ...

The Weddell Sea is as pristine as it is perilous. At more than 1.08million miles 2 (2.8million km 2) and home to over 14,000 species of animal – including significant populations of whales ...

before grounding itself on a shallow part of the Weddell Sea floor for three decades. Only in the past couple of years has the berg made serious progress in trying to get away from the continent.

In this winter season, the sea ice cover in the Weddell, Bellingshausen, and Ross seas decreased by as much as 80 percent ...

It remained grounded on the Antarctic’s Weddell Sea floor for more than 30 years, probably until it shrank just enough to loosen its grip on the seafloor. Then, the iceberg was carried away by ...

Near the Filchner Ice Shelf in the south of the Antarctic Weddell Sea, a research team has found the world’s largest fish breeding area known to date. A towed camera system photographed and ...

Bertie Gregory (UK) tracks a pod of orcas as they prepare to wave wash a Weddell seal. This pod belongs to an ecotype known as B1 - the pack ice orcas -identified by their characteristically large, ...

A23a broke from the Antarctic coast in 1986, before grounding itself on a shallow part of the Weddell Sea floor for three ... the berg wasting at its edges. Waves are cutting into its walls ...