{"id":9136,"date":"2025-11-05T20:03:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=9136"},"modified":"2025-11-05T20:03:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:03:38","slug":"a23a-once-the-largest-iceberg-in-the-world-will-soon-disappear-because-of-warmer-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=9136","title":{"rendered":"A23a, once the largest iceberg in the world, will soon disappear because of warmer waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/11\/04\/68d425d5-c280-4b6d-a412-fab7e9b3f542_9248b7de.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">What was once the largest iceberg in the world may soon vanish into the vastness of the ocean.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Covering about 4,000 sq km (1,500 square miles) when it broke away, the iceberg \u2013 named A23a \u2013 was once roughly twice the size of Greater London, the largest city by land mass in western Europe.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">A23a broke off from Antarctica\u2019s Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in 1986 and remained grounded on the seabed in the Weddell Sea <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">for over 30 years<\/span>.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has been tracking the mega-iceberg for years and recently announced on the Bluesky platform that it was \u201crapidly breaking up\u201d into several \u201cvery large chunks\u201d after it began drifting north.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">According to Andrew Meijers, a BAS oceanographer, the gigantic slab of ice has broken into substantial sections, each comparable in scale to large icebergs.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">With the arrival of spring in the southern hemisphere, the iceberg is likely to break up into pieces too small to be tracked any further, he notes, and will eventually melt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/article\/3331476\/a23a-once-largest-iceberg-world-will-soon-disappear-because-warmer-waters?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What was once the largest iceberg in the world may soon vanish into the vastness of the ocean. Covering about 4,000 sq km (1,500 square&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[8272,5742,4991,1847,8273,8274,526],"class_list":["post-9136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-a23a","tag-disappear","tag-iceberg","tag-largest","tag-warmer","tag-waters","tag-world","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}