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World’s Largest Iceberg Now Ominously Close to Sensitive Island

A scary situation is developing in the southern Atlantic Ocean, as iceberg A68a is now within striking distance of South Georgia island. Alarmed by the turn of events, a team of scientists is heading out to investigate the ways in which this gigantic iceberg might affect the local wildlife. When we last reported on this…

Earther George Dvorsky

Satellite Photos Show Gigantic Iceberg Possibly Drifting Away From Ecologically Sensitive Island

Iceberg A68a—currently the world’s largest iceberg—is rotating and possibly moving in a westerly direction away from South Georgia Island, according to new satellite photos. This is potentially good news, as the enormous chunk of ice appeared to be on a collision course with the wildlife-filled island. A series of photos captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1…

Earth Science George Dvorsky

World’s Biggest Iceberg Is on a Collision Course With Wildlife-Filled Island

The world’s biggest iceberg—called A68a—is heading directly towards the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, where it could wreak havoc on the local wildlife for years to come. Satellite imagery shows the iceberg, which is larger than Rhode Island, drifting northeast towards the British overseas territory of South Georgia. As the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) explained…

Earther George Dvorsky

Pine Island’s Massive New Iceberg Is Already Cracking Up

Antarctic has been on one the past few weeks. It reached 65 degrees Fahrenheit last week, a new record high for the continent. Scientists have found warm water creeping farther under its most vulnerable glacier. Other researchers dropped a little remote-operated robot under the same icy “superhighway,” recording eerie footage of an under-icescape in flux. And…

Climate Change Brian Kahn

The Satellite Images That Show a Decade of Climate Change

The 2010s will be remembered as the decade when we could no longer deny climate change. I mean, it’s not like any rational person could deny it in the preceding decades, but the past 10 years have seen scientists’ predictions become reality. Our world has entered an unsteady state, one where the things previous generations…

Earther Brian Kahn

A Gigantic Iceberg Has Broken Off Antarctica

A huge iceberg weighing upwards of 350 billion tons has broken off the Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica. AFP reports the calving event happened at some point between September 24 and 25, as evidenced by U.S. and European satellite images. Dubbed D28, the gigantic chunk of ice measures 1,636 square kilometers (632 square miles) in…

Earth Science George Dvorsky

Scientists Might Finally Know Why Some Icebergs Are Bright Green

In the 18th-century English ballad The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a storm drives a sailor’s ship toward the South Pole, where he encounters all manner of fantastical sights, including floating icebergs “as green as emerald.” It may sound like author Samuel Coleridge was taking some poetic license, but emerald-colored icebergs are a real thing—and…

Earth Science Maddie Stone

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The holidays are nigh, and this year’s naughty list is long indeed—and from revelations of reckless privacy violations over at Facebook headquarters and continued labor abuses at Amazon to the generally terrible way humanity has treated our homeworld, your erstwhile chroniclers at Gizmodo have been adding names to it until the very last minute. This…

Tech News Tom McKay

Watch 40 Years of Icebergs Breaking off Antarctica

Iceberg mania briefly overtook the internet last month when NASA captured a rectangular freakberg. But icebergs are with us all the time, and there’s a new animation to help you celebrate them in all shapes and sizes. Climate visualization specialists Pixel Movers and Makers have taken more than 40 years of data on the migration…

Earth Science Brian Kahn

An Iceberg Five Times the Size of Manhattan Just Popped off West Antarctica

While the internet was obsessing over that rectangular iceberg, some more disconcerting icy behavior went down on the other side of the Antarctic. The Pine Island Glacier has been breaking off monstrous icebergs over the past five years, presenting a worrying sign that the West Antarctic is destabilizing. The latest occurred this weekend. Satellite imagery…

Climate Change Brian Kahn

NASA Releases More Pics of Freaky Rectangular Iceberg

New photos of a surprisingly rectangular iceberg are offering the full picture of this now-famous Antarctic structure—and it remains weird as hell. Scientists with NASA’s Operation IceBridge released the original photo last week, but it only showed a portion of the odd iceberg. With much of the ‘berg out of the frame, it wasn’t clear…

Earth Science George Dvorsky

This Weirdly Geometric Iceberg Is Freaking Us Out

Well here’s something you don’t see everyday: an iceberg so unbelievably geometric in shape you’d think it was deliberately carved with a gigantic chainsaw. Scientists have documented this sort of thing before, but this latest ‘berg, which recently split from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf, happens to be a rather extraordinary example. What you’re looking…

Earth Science George Dvorsky

Giant Antarctic Iceberg Makes Dramatic About-Face

Since it snapped off the Larsen C ice shelf in July 2017, the trillion-ton iceberg known as A68 has spent most of its time stuck in the mud. Now, new satellite data reveals that the ‘berg made its biggest move yet over the austral winter—a dramatic counterclockwise rotation that shows no signs of stopping. About…

Earth Science Maddie Stone

Giant Iceberg Looming Over Greenland Village Is the Perfect Metaphor for 2018

If you needed a visual representation of our global environmental crisis in 2018, it doesn’t get much better (well, worse) than the gigantic iceberg looming over the village of Innaarsuit in Greenland, now seen from the vantage of space. Last week, news outlets began reporting that an alarmingly large iceberg had drifted close to Innaarsuit,…

Earther Maddie Stone

Here’s What Antarctica’s Hugest Iceberg Has Been Doing Since It Broke Free

It was a year ago at this time that Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf gave birth to Iceberg A-68, one of the largest chunks of ice ever recorded. A new timelapse video made from satellite imagery shows the rift, calving, and subsequent journey of the iceberg over the past 12 months. Iceberg A-68 is the…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Antarctic Expedition to Find Ernest Shackleton’s Lost Ship Set for Next Year

Early next year, an international team of explorers will investigate the area in-and-around the massive iceberg that split away from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf in July 2017. As an added bonus, the researchers will also attempt to locate the wreck of the Endurance, which sunk in 1915 as part of the ill-fated Shackleton expedition.…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Scientists Set to Explore Mysterious Seafloor Exposed by Antarctica’s Giant Iceberg

Remember the massive iceberg that split away from Antarctica last year? An international team of scientists is about to embark on a mission to explore the newly exposed marine ecosystem underneath—one that’s been hidden for over 100,000 years. Iceberg A-68, as it’s called, calved from Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf on July 12, 2017. Weighing…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Scientists Are Planning a Cruise Into the Breach Left by the Larsen C Iceberg

The Larsen C iceberg may have broken away from Antarctica in July, but the sciencing is just commencing. So far, scientists have been limited to checking in on what’s happened to the ice shelf and the 2,240-square-mile iceberg it calved by satellite. Those images have been instructive (and often spectacular), but nothing compares to getting…

Earther Brian Kahn

Yet Another Giant Iceberg Has Broken Free From Antarctica

Satellite images taken this past weekend show a new 100-square-mile iceberg emerging from Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier. The calving event did not come as a complete surprise, but it’s a troubling sign with regards to future sea level rise. Pine Island Glacier (PIG) is the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica—one that’s responsible for a quarter…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Antarctica’s Massive Iceberg Is Starting to Disintegrate

Last week, the Larsen C Ice Shelf gave birth to a trillion pound baby, an iceberg now dubbed A68. The latest observations suggest this big berg has moved 1.5 miles from its starting point, and that it’s already starting to crack up. The 5,800-square-kilometer iceberg A68 finally calved on July 12th, and scientists are now closely…

Tech News George Dvorsky

World’s Largest Iceberg Now Ominously Close to Sensitive Island

Satellite Photos Show Gigantic Iceberg Possibly Drifting Away From Ecologically Sensitive Island

World’s Biggest Iceberg Is on a Collision Course With Wildlife-Filled Island

Pine Island’s Massive New Iceberg Is Already Cracking Up

The Satellite Images That Show a Decade of Climate Change

A Gigantic Iceberg Has Broken Off Antarctica

Scientists Might Finally Know Why Some Icebergs Are Bright Green

Alexa Snooping, Robot Takeovers, and FBI Surveillance: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Watch 40 Years of Icebergs Breaking off Antarctica

An Iceberg Five Times the Size of Manhattan Just Popped off West Antarctica

NASA Releases More Pics of Freaky Rectangular Iceberg

This Weirdly Geometric Iceberg Is Freaking Us Out

Giant Antarctic Iceberg Makes Dramatic About-Face

Giant Iceberg Looming Over Greenland Village Is the Perfect Metaphor for 2018

Here’s What Antarctica’s Hugest Iceberg Has Been Doing Since It Broke Free

Antarctic Expedition to Find Ernest Shackleton’s Lost Ship Set for Next Year

Scientists Set to Explore Mysterious Seafloor Exposed by Antarctica’s Giant Iceberg

Scientists Are Planning a Cruise Into the Breach Left by the Larsen C Iceberg

Yet Another Giant Iceberg Has Broken Free From Antarctica

Antarctica’s Massive Iceberg Is Starting to Disintegrate

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