Forces of Nature: The making of an iceberg

4K satellite video of A23a - the world's largest Iceberg. 🛰️ Drifting away from Antarctica, A23a is succumbing to the relentless erosive forces of warmer air and surface waters, with powerful waves relentlessly crashing into the berg, creating cascades of ice in a continuous state of erosion. As it wanders through oceanic currents, it generously imparts mineral nutrients, fostering life from plankton to majestic whales. With milder temperatures contributing to surface melt ponds and the formati

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Newly obtained satellite images show a giant iceberg calving off from Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf. The particular iceberg, which has been named A-83, covers an expanse of the water body measuring 380 square kilometers, and this actually means that the size of this iceberg is four times the size of New Delhi. This particular calving event is interesting since it can be said to be the third large ice shed from this area in the last four years. The separation was caused by a long-term weakening of