SCIENCE: 5 things to know about the iceberg, Scott Waldman, E&E News reporter Climatewire: Thursday, July 13, 2017. It's finally adrift. When the Larsen C Ice Shelf calved yesterday, it sent one of the largest icebergs ever recorded slipping into a sea frosted with smaller chunks of ice. It marked the end of a decadeslong splintering first seen by satellites in the 1960s. The crack stayed small for years until, in 2014, it began racing across the Antarctic ice. (207kB)

SCIENCE: 5 things to know about the iceberg, Scott Waldman, E&E News reporter Climatewire: Thursday, July 13, 2017. It's finally adrift. When the Larsen C Ice Shelf calved yesterday, it sent one of the largest icebergs ever recorded slipping into a sea frosted with smaller chunks of ice. It marked the end of a decadeslong splintering first seen by satellites in the 1960s. The crack stayed small for years until, in 2014, it began racing across the Antarctic ice. (207kB)