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Most of us have only seen photos of icebergs and may have only a vague idea of where they come from. Here's a primer on one of nature's great art forms.
The iceberg has been closely monitored due to concerns that it may collide with South Georgia, "potentially threatening a ...
They do this by lassoing the icebergs with rope, attaching the rope to a ship and dragging them away, albeit very slowly—at the speed of around 1 knot. But these icebergs tend to be relatively ...
Yet, Murphy points out, that does not explain the huge discrepancy in the number of icebergs recorded in years before climate change was an issue: eg, 15 icebergs in 1952; 1,500 in 1972.
The icebergs' color was originally seen as an impurity, but researchers believe they have a greater role. If confirmed, the iron carried by these glaciers could help feed organisms in the ocean as ...
Are icebergs going to save us from climate change? No, says Ronald S. Kaufmann, a marine and environmental scientist at the University of San Diego who is not associated with the study, but who ...
“The icebergs are just floating in the Indian Ocean. They are up for grabs to whoever can take them,” managing director Abdullah al-Shehi told The Associated Press in his Dubai office.
Icebergs move throughout the Antarctic winter because of declining sea ice, and they are destroying biodiversity on the seafloor.
Tumbling icebergs can release energies on the level of atom bombs, scaled-down laboratory experiments with plastic bergs suggest. A remnant of an iceberg that was originally the size of Connecticut.