The world's largest iceberg has run aground in shallow waters off the remote British island of South Georgia, home to millions of penguins and seals. The iceberg, which is about twice the size of ...

After months of floating, the "megaberg" known as A23a has finally come to a halt roughly 50 miles from South Georgia Island ...

A massive iceberg broke off from the George VI Ice Shelf in Antarctica in January, giving researchers a rare opportunity to ...

Science and technology editor Tom Clarke has been flying over A23a, the world's largest iceberg, and seen first-hand its vast ...

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 ...

Fresh water melting from the bottom of the iceberg ... Satellites will continue to monitor the iceberg and any ice fragments that break off into the ocean. Join our Space Forums to keep talking ...

Scientists scrutinizing the seafloor beneath a calving iceberg found a remarkable array of living creatures, switching up notions of how the giant chunks of ice affect their immediate environs.

In January 2025, A-84 an iceberg the size of Chicago broke away from a massive floating glacier attached to the Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet. Now, scientists have discovered a thriving ecosystem ...

A23a - the world’s largest and oldest iceberg - has run aground on the continental shelf near the island of South Georgia, scientists say. The nearly one-trillion-tonne block of ice was calved ...

"If the ice underneath is rotten - eroded by salt ... says Peter Fretwell at the British Antarctic Survey. The iceberg melts freshwater into salt water, reducing the amount of food including ...

The world's largest and oldest iceberg ... "This loss of ice shelf mass has significant implications for ocean circulation due to the addition of freshwater, acceleration of sea level rise ...