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Singapore-sized Iceberg floats in the Southern Ocean

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The Pine Island Glacier or PIG is a giant ice steam that is considered to be the world's most rapidly shrinking glacier on Earth. Scientists predicted that the PIG will give birth to large icebergs...

Chicago-Sized Iceberg Antarctica Breaks Loose from Glacier

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A team of German scientists discovered that an iceberg that was as big as the city of Chicago was floating in the Amundsen Sea. It had broken off from mainland Antarctica and was spied by the...