With the Antarctic sheets melting faster than ever before, a giant slab of ice almost seven times the size of Mumbai city has shed off from the frozen edge of Antarctica into the Weddell Sea.
According to the European Space Agency, this slab of ice has now become the largest iceberg in the world. The iceberg, dubbed A-76, measures around 4320 sq km in size that is 170 km long and 25 km wide. In comparison, Mumbai’s total area is 603.4 sq km, while India’s capital city Delhi occupies about 1484 sq km.
Meanwhile, this iceberg was detected in recent satellite images captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission. It was spotted by the British Antarctic Survey and confirmed from the US National Ice Center using Copernicus Sentinel-1 imagery.
With global warming reaching its peak, as glaciers retreat, pieces of ice break off and float adrift until they break apart or crash into land.
On the other hand, e couple of days after Cyclone Tauktae came close to the coast of Mumbai, plenty of garbage has washed up on the city’s beaches. The civic solid waste management workers removed the garbage which weighed around 62,010 kg from seven beaches in the city including Girgaon, Dadar, Juhu, Chimbai, Gorai, Versova, and Madh.
While garbage is usually found on the shores on a regular day, the massive difference in garbage collection prior to and after Cyclone Tauktae illustrates its impact, particularly in Dadar. Moreover, local activists stated that the tide determined which beach was affected the most.
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