{"id":12061,"date":"2023-11-25T01:50:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T01:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/25\/the-worlds-biggest-iceberg-is-on-the-move\/"},"modified":"2023-11-25T01:50:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T01:50:07","slug":"the-worlds-biggest-iceberg-is-on-the-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/25\/the-worlds-biggest-iceberg-is-on-the-move\/","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s biggest iceberg is on the move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The world\u2019s biggest iceberg  \u2013 more than twice the size of Britain\u2019s capital city \u2013 is on the move after decades of being grounded on the seafloor in Antarctica.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The huge mass of ice broke away from the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf in 1986, calved and grounded on the Antarctic\u2019s Weddell Sea floor almost immediately.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The iceberg, named A23a, is about 400 meters (1,312 feet) thick, and almost 4,000 square kilometers (1,544 square miles) in area. Greater London, by way of comparison, is 1,572 square kilometers (607 square miles).  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      A23a has held the \u201clargest current iceberg\u201d title several times since the 1980s, occasionally being surpassed by larger but shorter-lived icebergs, including A68 in 2017 and A76 in 2021, they added.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The iceberg, carried by ocean currents, will likely head eastward, and at its current rate is traveling five kilometers (three miles) a day.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Gilbert and Marsh added that while this particular iceberg probably broke away as part of the natural growth cycle of the ice shelf, climate change is driving changes in Antarctica\u2019s ice and the continent is losing enormous quantities of ice every year.  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s biggest iceberg \u2013 more than twice the size of Britain\u2019s capital city \u2013 is on the move after decades of being grounded on the seafloor in Antarctica. The huge mass of ice broke away from the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf in 1986, calved and grounded on the Antarctic\u2019s Weddell Sea floor almost immediately. The <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}