A massive iceberg weighing 1 trillion tons has broken off from a key floating ice shelf in Antarctica, a UK based research team said. Scientists from Project MIDAS who have been monitoring a break in the Larsen C ice shelf said that this is quite normal. It is a part of normal behaviour of ice shelves. The scientists and noticed some major changes in the past one year but the process known as claving occurred in the last few days when a 5,800-square-kilometer (2,240-square-mile) section broke away. The iceberg is likely to be named A68.

Source: India Today July 13, 2017 06:45 UTC