Breakaway iceberg raises considerations over Antarctica’s Thwaites glacier

An enormous iceberg that has been caught on the seafloor in entrance of the Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica for twenty years and helped defend it’s now floating away

Atmosphere



11 January 2023

By Michael Le Web page

An enormous iceberg that was serving to to sluggish the lack of floating ice from the Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica has come unstuck.

The iceberg, roughly 85 kilometres (53 miles) lengthy and 64 kilometres (40 miles) extensive, initially broke away from the floating ice shelf shaped by the glacier in March 2002, however received caught in a shallow a part of the Amundsen Sea round 100 kilometres away.

Its presence had been serving to to anchor sea ice – shaped by the freezing of …