A giant chunk has broken off the largest iceberg in the world, which may be the first sign of its deterioration. The behemoth ...

Antarctic Circumpolar Current churns 6 billion cubic-feet of water per second Vortex slows in cool eras, like the Ice Age, but speeds up with global warming Researchers drilled 500- to 650-ft-long ...

As NPR's Juliana Kim reported in August, the Taylor column is a fluid mechanics phenomenon that can be described as "a rotating cylinder that forms when there's an obstruction in a flow" — in other ...

For decades, it was trapped in an ocean vortex, stationary on the seafloor, until it finally broke free in December 2024. "It's exciting to see A23a on the move again after periods of being stuck ...

It is known as A23a and is one of the world's oldest. It calved, or broke off, from the Filchner Ice Shelf in Antarctica in 1986 but got stuck on the seafloor and then trapped in an ocean vortex.

Abnormal weather events and severe winter storms could be caused by a disrupted polar vortex. Find out here how the polar ...

53-year-old Towana Looney became just the third living person to receive a pig kidney in an experimental procedure After spending months stuck in a swirling ocean vortex, iceberg A23a is once ...

It calved, or broke off, from the Filchner Ice Shelf in Antarctica in 1986 but got stuck on the seafloor and then trapped in an ocean vortex. Finally, in December, it broke free and is now on its ...