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As of October 2020, this film has a rating of 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 72 reviews and an average score of 7.6/10.The website's critical consensus states, "Chasing Ice captures the urgency of climate change while prevailing as entertainment, thanks [to] the awe-inspiring scenery and James Balog's charisma". [5]
A23a is a large tabular iceberg which calved from the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf in 1986. It was stuck on the sea bed for many years but then started moving in 2020. As of January 2025, its area is about 3,500 square kilometres (1,400 sq mi), which makes it the current largest iceberg in the world.
In 2018 or 2019, a large chunk almost 14 km × 8 km (9 miles × 5 miles) broke off and was named A-68B, with the mother iceberg now being A-68A. [13] On 6 February 2020, A-68A began moving into open waters. [14] On 23 April 2020, a chunk measuring about 175 sq. km. (70 sq. mi.) broke off the iceberg and was named A-68C. [15]
A massive iceberg, known as A23a, is on an apparent collision course with South Georgia Island, a British territory in the South Atlantic Ocean. The giant sheet of ice, which originally broke off ...
The world's largest iceberg is on the move for the first time in more than three decades, scientists said on Friday. At almost 4,000 square km (1,500 square miles), the Antarctic iceberg called ...
A23a has held the “largest current iceberg” title several times since the 1980s, occasionally being surpassed by larger but shorter-lived icebergs, including A68 in 2017 and A76 in 2021.
The iceberg is about 170 km (110 mi) long and 25 km (16 mi) wide, and is described as being shaped like a "giant ironing board", and roughly the size of Cornwall. [5] The size at calving was an estimated 4,320 km 2 (1,670 sq mi). Iceberg A-76a in March 2023
An iceberg larger than Rhode Island broke off from the Ronne ice shelf in Antarctica's Weddell Sea mid-May, and a satellite operated by European scientists captured the moment the massive piece of ...