The world’s largest iceberg is “rapidly breaking up” into several large “very large chunks,” scientists from the British ...

For 40 years, one iceberg has held the title of "world's biggest." Now, the giant floating chunk of ice is losing its ...

Back in January, Meijers, who visited the iceberg at the end of 2023, painted a different picture of A23A: “The iceberg ...

An iceberg that was once labelled as the biggest in the world has been breaking apart in the Southern Ocean--to such an ...

Like a floating avalanche…” A23a, the one trillion-ton iceberg that broke off of Antarctica, is calving into the ocean.

You might not have heard about the A23A before, but it holds the figurative Guinness record as the largest iceberg on Earth.

Just months ago, the world’s largest iceberg weighed about a trillion tons and covered an area nearly the size of Anchorage, Alaska. Now it’s less than half that—and rapidly disappearing.

There have been periods when its title as the world's largest iceberg has been challenged, but it has always managed to come out on top. A23a regained the honor in June 2023. However, after getting ...

An iceberg, known as A23a, top, seen on a NASA satellite, is visible near South Georgia Island, bottom, on Sept. 1, 2025, off the coast of Antarctica. (NASA Worldview via AP) The world's largest and ...

The world’s largest and most enduring iceberg is splintering into smaller pieces, to the point that it’s no longer the biggest chunk of ice floating in the oceans. The shrinking megaberg, known as ...