Now, far from the icy seas of Antarctica, what’s left of A23a is being eaten away by warmer waters. It’s in its death throes, ...

1,000,000,000,000 tons. That’s one trillion, with a “t” at the start. And that’s how much A23a, aka the world’s largest iceberg, weighs. It spans across about 1,418-sqaure-miles, or about three times ...

Iceberg A-23A, once the largest iceberg on Earth at roughly 4,000 square kilometers, may be nearing the end of its life in the Southern Ocean. In a January 2026 update, NASA’s Earth Observatory ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The image, taken in 2024, shows massive arches carved into A23a, revealing spectacular erosion and cave-like formations. Richard ...

A large Antarctic iceberg that calved almost four decades ago is now in its final days, with scientists saying it could vanish within weeks after drifting into warmer seas. The megaberg, known as A23a ...

The world’s largest iceberg is “rapidly breaking up” into several large “very large chunks,” scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have said. Previously weighing nearly a trillion metric ...

It's been a long and unusual journey for the world's largest iceberg, known as A23a, but it's ending in a relatively usual way: breaking apart and melting in the warmer waters of the South Atlantic ...