Chicago-Sized Iceberg Breaks Away From Ice Sheet, Revealing Thriving Ecosystem
[ad_1] In January 2025, researchers on the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s R/V Falkor (too) had to divert their plans after an iceberg roughly the size of Chicago broke away from the George VI Ice Shelf, a floating glacier that had been attached to the Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet. As the iceberg broke away, it exposed an…