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The world’s biggest iceberg — a wall of ice the size of Rhode Island — is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica that’s home to millions of penguins and seals

"It's a trillion tons of ice," as one expert told NPR. Now the largest iceberg in the world, A23a, is on the move after decades of being grounded on the seafloor.

With the continent holding enough ice to raise sea levels by many metres if it was to melt, polar scientists are scrambling for answers

WASHINGTON: Antarctic sea ice likely shrunk to a record low last week, US researchers said on Monday, its lowest extent in the 45 years of satellite record-keeping.

Scientists got their first up-close look at what's eating away part of Antarctica's Thwaites ice shelf, nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier because of its massive melt and sea rise potential.

A pencil-shaped robot is giving scientists their first look at the forces eating away at the Thwaites glacier in Antarctica

This is a transcript of The Conversation Weekly podcast episode: Thwaites Glacier: the melting, Antarctic monster of sea level rise, published on September 22, 2022.

This episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast is about the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica. Thwaites is among the largest glaciers on Earth and one of the single most important factors for future global sea level rise. We talk to three experts about what makes Thwaites so uniquely significant, why it’s…

A recent spike saw a enough water run off to fill 2.4 million Olympic-sized swimming pools.