“Our teams at BAS have been prepared for the calving of an iceberg from Brunt Ice Shelf for years,” said BAS Survey director Professor Dame Jane Francis. A giant iceberg, larger than the size ...

The Larsen A ice shelf collapsed in 1995 and the Larsen B shelf suddenly crumbled in 2002 after a similar rift developed. An iceberg the size of Delaware has broken free from an Antarctic ice ...