The largest iceberg in the world is floating freely once again after being trapped in a swirling ocean vortex for several months. The iceberg is called A23a and spans roughly 1,500 square miles ...
But now, according to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), its course has been interrupted after becoming trapped in an ocean ...
The world's largest iceberg is on a collision course with a remote British island, potentially putting penguins and seals in danger. The iceberg is spinning northwards from Antarctica towards South ...
About the size of Rhode Island, the iceberg known as A23a got stuck in an ocean vortex this summer, spinning in place for months. Now, it's free,... A23a, the world's largest and oldest iceberg ...
It came to a stop a second time in August of this year—at least in terms of forward movement—when it became lodged in a spinning ocean vortex known as a Taylor column that rotated it by 15 ...
The intense cold snap about to settle over most of Canada and the U.S. has been dubbed a “polar vortex’, but Environment ...
In recent decades, water temperatures in the Gulf have been increasing faster than average ocean temperatures across the ...
How the Polar Vortex Can Bring Arctic Blasts to the U.S. Vast weather patterns can carry blasts of frigid air far from the ...
It calved, or broke off, from the Filchner Ice Shelf in Antarctica in 1986 but got stuck on the seafloor and then trapped in an ocean vortex. Finally, in December, it broke free and is now on its ...