The biggest iceberg on Earth is heading toward a remote island, creating a potential threat to penguins and seals inhabiting ...
Satellites watch world's largest iceberg on crash course with Antarctic penguin island (photo/video)
Measuring roughly 1,350 square miles (3,500 square kilometers) across, A23a is the world's largest and oldest iceberg ...
If it gets stuck near South Georgia Island, that could make it hard for penguin parents to feed their babies and some young ...
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A Trillion-Ton Megaberg is Heading for South Georgia Island: Here’s What it Means for the Wildlife That Lives ThereA 130-foot towering wall of ice with a surface area larger than Rhode Island is slowly making its way toward a remote island near Antarctica. Imagine if the ice wall from Game of Thrones were mobile ...
The trillion-ton slab of ice that scientists call a "megaburg" broke off from the Antarctic’s Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986.
Satellites watch world's largest iceberg on crash course with Antarctic penguin island (photo/video)
The potential impact on South Georgia Island's ecosystem is worrying. Penguins, seals, and other marine animals depend on the island's surrounding waters for food and breeding. If A23a grounds ...
The island of South Georgia is home to king penguin colonies and millions of fur and elephant seals Credit: LPhot Lee Blease/Cover Images Laura Taylor, a biogeochemist who also took part in the ...
The iceberg may drift past the continental shelf into open waters beyond South Georgia, a British overseas ... and breeding for seals and penguins on the island. "Icebergs have grounded there ...
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