An iceberg five times the size of Malta has broken off a glacier in Antarctica.
The D28 iceberg, known as "Loose Tooth", was photographed breaking from the Amery ice shelf by the European Union Earth Observation Program. It is 213m thick and contains 314 billion tonnes.
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Scientists have not linked this event to climate change, but have concerns about the iceberg's travel path, the Daily Mail reveals.
Although some may point to climate change the reason the iceberg has broken off, scientists have revealed that this is a natural event and it is how "ice streams maintain equilibrium, balancing the input of snow upstream", according to the BBC.