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  2. The world’s largest iceberg is stuck twirling in an ocean vortex

The world’s largest iceberg is stuck twirling in an ocean vortex

Till Wagner, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies how ice interacts with climate, said he has never seen a real-life example of this phenomenon on such a massive scale.

Read the full article at: https://www.npr.org/2024/08/10/nx-s1-5069771/iceberg-a23a-spinning-ocean-vortex-trapped-taylor-column
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