“We will have to wait years or decades to know what will happen to the remainder of Larsen C,” Luckman said. Scientists do not directly attribute the new glacier's calving to climate change, as such shifts in ice shelves are considered natural, but scientists agree climate change contributed to the disintegration of both Larsen A and Larsen B ice shelves, beginning in the 1990s. “It’s like your ice cube in your gin and tonic-it is already floating and if it melts it doesn’t change the volume of water in the glass by very much at all,” Anna Hogg, a glacier expert from the University of Leeds, told The Guardian. Hardly your everyday iceberg, it was one of the.

Satellite imagery confirms an enormous iceberg, around five times the size of Malta, has finally calved from Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf. Perhaps you remember iceberg A68a, which enjoyed a few minutes of fame back in 2017 when it broke off an ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula. Sea levels will not immediately rise, according to Project MIDAS, as A68 was already floating, but further destabilization of the ice shelf could lead to its collapse, which would contribute to rising sea levels. Giant iceberg breaks away from Antarctic ice shelf.

'Some of the ice may remain in the area for decades, while parts of the iceberg. National Ice Center (USNIC) the next day using images from the Sentinel-1A satellite.

The iceberg, known as A-76, was first spotted by a British Antarctic Survey researcher May 13. 'It may remain in one piece but is more likely to break into fragments,' Adrian Luckman, a professor at Swansea University and lead investigator of Project MIDAS, told Reuters. A massive chunk of ice broke off of Antarctica this month, and it is now the largest iceberg in the world.

Antarctica iceberg breaks off