From raising the global sea level to crushing life on the seafloor — here’s why you should care about icebergs: Icebergs in Disko Bay, western Greenland. Chris Christophersen/Shutterstock Late in the evening of April 14 1912, the RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg in the north-west Atlantic. In just over two and a half hours, …
South Africa in the news: The Melting of Large Icebergs is a Key Stage in the Evolution of Ice Ages: A new study, in which the Andalusian Earth Sciences Institute (IACT) (CSIC-UGR) participated, has described for the first time a key stage in the beginning of the great glaciations and indicates that …: “South Africa” …
South Africa in the news: Icebergs could float to the rescue of Cape Town water crisis: Tuesday, May 1, 2018, 1:54 PM – JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Marine salvage experts are floating a plan to tug icebergs from Antarctica to South Africa’s drought-hit Cape Town to help solve the region’s worst water shortage in a century. …