It’s the kind of event that when it happens, you leave whatever you’re doing,” said Patricia Esquete, the expedition’s chief scientist.

A gigantic iceberg about 30 kilometres long cracked off the ice sheet on January 13, revealing a swath of ocean that had not ...

The drifting iceberg released itself free three decades after it latched onto the seafloor of the Weddell Sea but was once ...

The A23a iceberg is twice the size of Greater London, and slightly smaller than the State of Rhode Island The world’s largest iceberg has run aground off the coast of a remote island in the Atlantic ...

Satellite images taken at the beginning of March show the iceberg parked on a shallow underwater shelf off the coast of South ...

Flying over the massive iceberg, it's indistinguishable from the horizon. But as it melts, chunks of ice risk floating ...

A wide diversity of marine life, that may include previously unknown species, flourishes in a region of ocean once hidden ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than ...

A, after years of drifting, now appears stuck near South Georgia Island. Once lodged in the Southern Weddell Sea for decades, ...

Science and technology editor Tom Clarke has been flying over A23a, the world's largest iceberg, and seen first-hand its vast ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Antarctic iceberg A-23A (at left) stuck in shallow waters off the coast of South Georgia ...