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 ...

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 ...

The intense cold snap about to settle over most of Canada and the U.S. has been dubbed a “polar vortex’, but Environment ...

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 ...

How the Polar Vortex Can Bring Arctic Blasts to the U.S. Vast weather patterns can carry blasts of frigid air far from the ...

Abnormal weather events and severe winter storms could be caused by a disrupted polar vortex. Find out here how the polar ...

an ocean vortex. Of course, this is just a blip in the long, storied life of A23a. After first calving, or breaking off, from Antarctica's Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986, the iceberg spent some 30 ...

As an ocean vortex, the horizontal structures of mesoscale eddies automatically form a circular shape; much like galaxies, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot or hurricanes; as a minimum-energy state.

The polar vortex can be disrupted by factors such as natural turbulence, high-latitude ocean warming, sea ice loss, sudden atmospheric warming, planetary waves and climate change, says the ...