The world’s largest iceberg is “rapidly breaking up” into several large “very large chunks,” scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have said.

The iceberg, known as A23a, has been on a journey following the current into warmer waters for months. Now, it has begun the predicted and natural process of breaking apart, and eventually melting.

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's an iceberg that's not just bigger than the city; it's a little bigger than all of Long Island. The whopping 1,418 square mile mass of ice known to scientists as A23a has held the record of ...

The largest floating object on Earth, the iceberg A23A, is drifting, uh, near South Georgia Island. Uh, that's an island between Africa and South America, near the southern tip of both those ...

A colossal iceberg ranked among the oldest and largest ever recorded is crumbling apart in warm Antarctic waters, and could disappear within weeks.

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