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A23a has run aground in the Southern Ocean after years adrift. But could it continue on its collision course in the future?
The newfound ecosystem is filled with sea crabs, octopuses and gigantic sponges, suggesting it may have been thriving for ...
Flying over the massive iceberg, it's indistinguishable from the horizon. But as it melts, chunks of ice risk floating towards South Georgia, presenting a problem for some of its penguins, seals and ...
The world's largest iceberg, A23a, has grounded 73 kilometers off ... has been drifting north from Antarctica since 2020. Its current position reduces risks to the region's penguins and seals.
While Meijers noted icebergs like A23a are normal parts of the Antarctic life cycle, human-caused climate change has accelerated the process over the last couple of decades. Since 2000 ...
Roughly 1,550 square miles across, the world's biggest and oldest iceberg, known as A23a, calved from the Antarctic shelf in 1986. Before its calving in 1986, the colossal iceberg hosted a Soviet ...
After months on the move, the world's largest iceberg, A23a, has run aground off the remote British island of South Georgia, representatives from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) reported on ...
The colossal iceberg A23a – which is more than twice the size of Greater London and weighs nearly one trillion tonnes – has been drifting north from Antarctica towards South Georgia island ...
An iceberg the size of Chicago broke off am Antarctic ice shelf to reveal a thriving ecosystem underneath, according to ...
One thousand feet above the world's largest iceberg, it's hard to believe what you're seeing. It stretches all the way to the horizon - a field of white as far as the eye can see. Its edge looks ...