The ice covering the newly discovered ecosystem belonged to the George VI Ice Shelf, a vast ice shelf "trapped" between the Antarctic Peninsula and Alexander Island. Earlier this ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

A23a’s travels began in 2020 ... how ice shelves melt,” Das said in 2023, when the berg was still moving. “Ice shelves are losing mass because the ocean is warming. Calving is a natural ...

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 ...

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 ...