The world's largest iceberg is on a collision course for the island of South Georgia, raising concerns for the British ...
The biggest iceberg on Earth is heading toward a remote island, creating a potential threat to penguins and seals inhabiting the area.
An enormous chunk has broken off the world's largest iceberg, in a possible first sign the behemoth from Antarctica could be crumbling, scientists told AFP on Friday.
Known as A23a, the 1,400-square-mile iceberg had been stuck on the ocean floor near Antarctica for 37 years after splitting in 1986 from the Antarctic’s Filchner Ice Shelf. But it began to ...
The world’s largest iceberg called A23a reportedly is on the move in ... assumptions that while heading north from the coast of Antarctica, the iceberg is likely to collide with the British ...
Climate change may not have caused the birth of A23a—it calved from Antarctica's Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986—but the warming oceans and air temperatures around Antarctica are making icebergs ...
Iceberg A23a has been a concern for scientists since it broke away from the Antarctic ice shelf in 1986. After remaining immobile for over three decades, the iceberg finally broke free in 2020 and ...
Overall, however, researchers aren't too worried about major harm from the iceberg, named A23a. What's happening ... said British Antarctic Survey physical oceanographer Andrew Meijers, who ...
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 ...
A23a, arguably the world’s largest ... to break up into smaller chunks, the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) explained. Thousands of smaller icebergs are harder to track and just as hazardous ...
The huge iceberg A23a measures almost 1,500 square miles, roughly twice the size of Greater London, and is as tall as the Shard in London. Dr Andrew Meijers, physical oceanographer at British ...
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 ...