A large iceberg that has been caught on the seafloor in entrance of the Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica for 20 years and helped defend it’s now floating away
Environment
11 January 2023
Satellite photograph of the B22a iceberg after coming unstuck Simon Gascoin at CNRS
A large 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) large, initially broke away from the floating ice shelf shaped by the glacier in March 2002, however bought 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 …