Recently, one week ago, there was news that the world’s largest ice-burg break away from Antarctica.

·   Firstly,  we should know about what is ice- burg?

·  So, ice burg is a large piece of freshwater ice that has broken off a glacier or the ice – shelf.

·  And then it is floating freely in open saltwater.

 So, A huge ice- block has broken from western Antarctica into the Weddell sea and now , it is the world’s largest ice-burg

·  And the name of this ice-burg is -" Ice burg A-76.

You can see picture below of this newly ice-burg:-

And so  , it is the latest in the series of large blocks to uproot in a region extremely sensitive to climate change.

· However, scientists said that this is case appeared to be part of natural polar cycle-( it is a ice age and warmer Interglacial period).

· When that kind of ice-burg or ice-shelf separate itself from the main body and it goes to the ocean,  it is important for that particular region, because it is connected with climate change.

· and has been indeed substantiated in IPCC’s special report on the oceans and cryosphere in a changing climate (SROCC).

·     In that report picture you can see 2 parts:-

1. Green ice-sheet mass lose.

2. Antarctica ice-sheet mass lose.

And so far, the trend is increasing and if the same trend continues,  if the climate change in the global warming continues at the rate which is continuing right now, it is going to result in this proportionate amount of loss of ice-sheet.

 ·  In 2006-2015, Greenland Lost its ice-sheet's ice mass at a rate of 278 billion tonnes every year.

·   On other side,  ice-sheet of the Antarctic lost its mass at average rate of 155 billion Tonnes every year.

·  And the HIMALAYAN glaciers loss 220 billion tonnes of ice every year.

For example:- himalayan's glacier are feeding 10 rivers  like YANGTZE And GANGA.  If we don’t cut emissions, it will hitting water supplies in a whole Asia.

 So, although in this particular case, it could be that this Is the normal phenomenon.  But,  nonetheless a lot of part and chunk of ice is breaking away not just glaciers but also from ice-shelf and ice- caps.

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