British inventor Geoffrey Pyke believed ice was the new strategic material that could win the war for the Allies.
Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf is replete with cracks. One crack has been growing for months, and a 490-square-mile iceberg broke off on Friday.
A massive iceberg bound for South Georgia Island, which is populated by millions of penguins, has broken into two pieces, scientists tracking its journey said on Friday. Strong underwater currents caused the iceberg, dubbed A68a, to pivot nearly 180 degrees before splitting apart. It was only 31 miles away from […]
The world’s largest iceberg is drifting dangerously close to South Georgia Island, where millions of penguins and seals are breeding. If the iceberg gets stuck in the surrounding shallow waters it could cut off the animals’ access to the ocean. If penguins and seals have to travel across the 30-mile […]
Cape Town, South Africa, is emerging from a water crisis that threatened to leave the city without fresh drinking water. One mariner, Nicholas Sloane, has an ambitious plan to give Cape Town a new water source: He wants to tow an iceberg from the Antarctic and melt it. Sloane told […]
Judith Streng was walking a beach in Iceland with her son, Rod, when they came across a chaise-shaped iceberg and decided to take a picture on it. The Texas grandmother was posing for a picture when a wave hit and swept the iceberg back out to sea. Thankfully, a boat […]
NASA has been keeping tabs on a giant crack in Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf. The crack is rapidly growing, and it’s approaching a second chasm called the “Halloween crack.” If the two cracks converge, an iceberg 30 times the size of Manhattan (or twice the size of all of New […]
A perfectly rectangular iceberg was spotted by NASA scientist Jeremy Harbeck in October off of the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica. This tabular iceberg is naturally occurring – t he flat top and sharp corners indicate that the iceberg was recently formed. In the video above, marine glaciologist Dr. […]
A Dubai-based engineering firm wants to tow icebergs from Antarctica to Dubai in order to provide the city with a reserve of fresh drinking water. The firm will use satellite imagery to select candidate icebergs. It’s eyeing icebergs that are between 2,000 and 7,000 feet long, and weigh around 100 […]
A massive glacier is hovering near the tiny village of Innaarsuit in northwest Greenland. Residents had to be evacuated from the danger zone. If it calves, the glacier could prompt a massive tsunami, swamping the town. They’re used to seeing icebergs floating around in Greenland, but nothing quite this big. […]
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