According to the British Antarctic Survey ... The iceberg weighs 1.1 trillion tons and is roughly the size of Rhode Island. It might still affect the fishing industry, though.

A23a is seen in Antarctica, on Jan. 14, 2024. It is roughly the size of Rhode Island and weighs nearly a trillion tonnes. (Rob Suisted via Reuters) ...

Either way, the near-trillion-ton giant is larger than the state of Rhode Island, with towering cliffs that at certain points top 1,300 feet. It cracked off from continental Antarctica in 1986 and ...

The Mapping and Geographic Information Centre, British Antarctic Survey A23a—an iceberg a little larger than the state of Rhode Island—was lodged in the seafloor for decades before it took its ...

Microbes living beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet may survive ... these areas,” says Gavin Piccione at Brown University in Rhode Island. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox!

On the surface, Deception Island's Whalers Bay is still humanity's biggest imprint on Antarctica, outside of its 80 or so research stations. But a climate scientist might say otherwise.

On the ice-covered edge of a remote West Antarctic bay, the continent’s most imperiled glaciers threaten to redraw Earth’s coastlines. Pine Island Glacier and its neighbor Thwaites Glacier are ...