A massive chunk of ice - larger than the city of Paris - has broken off from the Arctic's largest ice shelf because of warmer ... a glacier - a process called calving - they are generally not ...

Incredible images from the NASA Earth Observatory show A-84 'calving' from the George VI Ice Shelf along the Antarctic coastline. The new berg was 'born' in mid-January and measures about 19 miles ...

Following the calving of the A-81 iceberg at the ... which is situated on the most stable part of the Brunt Ice Shelf, 20 km from the new ice front. In 2016, BAS took the precaution of relocating ...

The deep seafloor showed a flourishing ecosystem, and the team believes they may have discovered several new species during their research.

On Friday, NASA released an astonishing new ... largest calving event in Antarctica since 2000, the third biggest such event ever recorded and the largest from this particular ice shelf ...

Scientists have determined that at least six new aquatic species have been thriving under an Antarctic ice shelf.

The nearby Larsen B Ice Shelf made worldwide headlines in 2002 when it broke up after a similar process of rift-induced iceberg calving. The Larsen B event was actually incorporated into the ...

Roughly 1,550 square miles across, the world's biggest and oldest iceberg, known as A23a, calved from the Antarctic shelf in 1986. Before its calving ... Ice Shelf — a chunk about the size of tw ...