The colossal iceberg A23a, towering at 40 meters and spanning an area greater than the Australian Capital Territory, is now ...

The trillion-ton slab of ice named A23a could slam into South Georgia Island and get stuck or be guided around it by currents ...

It’s also a natural process happening more frequently because of human-caused climate change, said British Antarctic Survey ...

The slab of ice — named A23a — weighs almost one trillion tonnes and could slam into South Georgia Island before either ...

The world's iceberg is heading for South Georgia—a wildlife haven in the South Atlantic—and scientists are worried.

Tens of metres below the surface it becomes so dense it turns to solid glacial ice. An immense iceberg In 1909, Ilulissat was producing just one or two of these huge icebergs each year.

By the time it reached the shallow waters around South Georgia, the iceberg’s keel had reduced to 141 meters below the ocean surface, shallow enough to avoid the seabed which is around 150 ...

Due to its significant size, the iceberg brings nutrient-rich waters from the deep ocean to the surface, including iron ... melting of ice shelves from below by the ocean, due to increased ...