Scientists say climate change wasn t to blame for a giant iceberg breaking away in Antarctica but rather, high tide.
A 1,550 square kilometre iceberg broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf over the weekend, almost a decade after cracks formed in a section known as Chasm One.
Glaciologist Dominic Hodgson says the ice separation naturally occurs in this part of Antarctica.
Two years ago scientists recorded another iceberg separation from the Brunt Ice Shelf.
YEREVAN, JANUARY 26, ARMENPRESS. An approximately 600 square miles, or 1550 square kilometers iceberg broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica on Sunday, CNN reported citing the British Antarctic Survey.
A new iceberg that is larger than the size of Greater London broke off of Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf on Jan. 22 nears the British Halley Research station.
A huge iceberg nearly the size of Greater London has broken off the Antarctic ice shelf near a research station, the second such split in two years, researchers announced Monday.The British.