An iceberg that scientists say was the sixth-largest ever recorded in satellite imagery has now disintegrated, immediately spilling a massive amount of fresh water into the ocean. The massive A68A ...
The enormous A-68a iceberg was slowly drifting through the Southern Ocean last year, travelling 4,000 km from its home in Antarctica, and at the time was the largest iceberg on the planet. Its demise ...
If you’ve ever thought about what happens to the water once an iceberg melts, the answer is nothing good. This is the case for iceberg A68A, which broke off its shelf in Antarctica in 2017 and ...
When the massive A68A iceberg snapped off its ice shelf in July 2017, it was the sixth-largest iceberg on record. Now more than half of it is gone. A study published on January 10 in the journal ...
152 billion tonnes of fresh water – equivalent to 20 x Loch Ness or 61 million Olympic sized swimming pools, entered the seas around the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia when the megaberg A68A ...
The South Georgia Islands might not be permanently populated by humans, but it is an important sanctuary for penguins, seals and other various creatures in the South Atlantic. But a giant iceberg, ...
One of the world's largest icebergs is on a collision course with a South Atlantic island oasis, potentially threatening a rich ecosystem of wildlife including penguins, seals and krill. The "A68a" ...