A giant iceberg, created when it was detached from Antarctica 39 years ago and at some point was the largest in the world, melting as it moves to warmer waters. At the beginning of the year, this ice colossus, named A23A, weighed about 1 trillion tonnes and had an area of about 4,000 square kilometers, ie 50% larger than the surface of Luxembourg. However, as it is heading north, in areas not as cold as the southern ocean that plagues Antarctica, large parts of it have detached. Today it only reaches 1,770 square kilometers, in accordance with the analysis of the French agency in satellite images taken by the European Copernicus. “I would say that it is really heading towards the end (..) It is, very simply, in the process of disintegration. Water is too hot to survive. It melts steadily, ”explained oceanologist Andrew Majors of the UK Antarctic Institute of Research. ‘I expect this to continue in the coming weeks and I predict that it will be done […]
Source: News Beast
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