Massive, trillion-ton iceberg breaks away from Antarctica

A massive iceberg weighing 1 trillion tons has broken off from a key floating ice shelf in Antarctica, a UK based research team said.

And climate change might not be the reason behind this. 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. But what makes it unusual is its size.

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.