Antarctica - Iceberg A68's Massive Collapsing Ice-cliffs

By the end of January 2021, the stupendously large A-68 iceberg had broken into many smaller icebergs, designated alphabetically from A-68-A to A-68-N that passed safely past the island of South Georgia, and the relatively warm sea soon melted all traces.

Meanwhile at Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf, where we previously wrote in this space that cracks had appeared, here were are at the end of 2024 with the third huge 'calving' in the past four years having broken off on May 20th this year: Iceberg A-83 of 380 sq km or 147 sq miles, now moving slowly across the Weddell Sea.

To quote sciencealert.com "In addition to contributing to rising sea levels, coastal flooding and extreme weather, the loss of polar ice leads to additional solar radiatin being absorbed by the Earth's oceans, causing temperatures to rise further".

These are dire warnings from our Southern Polar Region that we must not ignore.