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AI to track icebergs adrift at sea in boon for science
AFP, Published on 05/02/2026
» PARIS - British scientists said on Thursday that a world-first AI tool to catalogue and track icebergs as they break apart into smaller chunks could fill a "major blind spot" in predicting climate change.
Tides could help predict when huge icebergs break loose: study
AFP, Published on 24/07/2025
» PARIS — Ocean tides can trigger city-sized icebergs to break off from Antarctic ice shelves, scientists said on Thursday, offering a potential way to predict these dramatic events in the future.
World’s biggest iceberg stalled, sparing wildlife haven
AFP, Published on 04/03/2025
» PARIS - The world’s biggest iceberg appears to have run aground roughly 70 kilometres from a remote Antarctic island, potentially sparing the crucial wildlife haven from being hit, a research organisation said on Tuesday.
Greenland's Inuit falling through thin ice of climate change
AFP, Published on 04/12/2023
» ITTOQQORTOORMIIT (DENMARK) - The thunder of icebergs crashing into the turquoise sea of eastern Greenland is the sound of one of the planet's most important ecosystems teetering on the edge of collapse.
The village at the end of the world
AFP, Published on 11/10/2023
» ITTOQQORTOORMIIT (DENMARK) - The last Inuit hunters of Ittoqqortoormiit are a resilient bunch.
Greenland's Inuit falling through thin ice of climate change
AFP, Published on 04/10/2023
» ITTOQQORTOORMIIT (DENMARK) - The thunder of icebergs crashing into the turquoise sea of eastern Greenland is the sound of one of the planet's most important ecosystems teetering on the edge of collapse.
Scientists voyage to Greenland's melting sanctuary
AFP, Published on 29/08/2023
» ITTOQQORTOORMIIT, Greenland - With rugged red mountains rising on either side, a sailboat carrying scientists deftly snakes between icebergs brimming Greenland's Scoresby Fjord, as they rush to document this understudied region on the frontline of climate change.
Greenland treads softly on tourism as icebergs melt
AFP, Published on 19/08/2022
» ILULISSAT (DENMARK) - As tourists flock to Greenland to take in its breathtaking icebergs and natural beauty, authorities are mulling ways to control crowds to protect the fragile environment, already threatened by global warming.
Melting glaciers, fast-disappering gauge of climate change
AFP, Published on 23/02/2022
» AYSEN (CHILE) - A crack widens in the San Rafael glacier in Chile's extreme south, and a ten-storey iceberg crashes into the lake by the same name -- a dramatic reminder of the impacts of global warming.
AFP among winners of Covering Climate Now awards
AFP, Published on 07/10/2021
» NEW YORK - Covering Climate Now, a global media project devoted to reporting on global warming, on Wednesday honored Agence France-Presse among the winners of its first journalism award.