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A 19 km fragment broke off from the world’s largest iceberg: what could happen?

A 19-kilometer fragment, almost the size of Paris, broke off from the world's largest iceberg. This is an event that is happening for the first time and it is being tracked by satellite. It is a huge ice shelf that...

One of the world’s oldest icebergs could collide with an island

One of the oldest icebergs in the world is about to collide with a remote British island. It is a wildlife refuge, and the enormous ice structure, one of the largest in existence, threatens to alter its ecosystem. This giant,...

What can a drifting iceberg, three times the size of New York, cause?

After being "asleep" for 40 years, an **iceberg adrift** with a surface **three times the size of New York City** has broken free from a **huge frozen platform in Antarctica**. With a surface area of about **4,000 km²**, the...

From headlines to reality: the impact of the world’s largest iceberg on the ocean

At the end of 2016, scientists detected a crack in the Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula, which led to the detachment of iceberg A-68 in July 2017. This iceberg, with more than double the size of Luxembourg...

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The melting of glaciers accelerates the loss of fresh water

In the last two decades, glaciers around the world lost approximately 5% of their total volume, with a significant...