this visitor from the South Pole poses potential problems and blessings. Scientists report that it is inevitable that the iceberg will break apart and melt. In fact, it has already shrunk and shed ...

A massive superberg, four times as big as New York City, has halted east of the southern tip of South America. By Victor Mather After months of drifting, the world’s largest iceberg has come to ...

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) said Tuesday that the iceberg had apparently struck the continental shelf that surrounds South Georgia, getting stuck roughly 73 kilometres from the island itself.

The world's largest and oldest iceberg, named A23a, has run aground in shallow waters off the coast of South Georgia, a remote island in the South Atlantic known for its populations of penguins ...

Earth's largest iceberg has run aground off the coast of South Georgia Island, a common rendezvous spot for large icebergs, new satellite images show. Measuring 1,240 square miles (3,460 square ...

will lead the huge block of ice to break up into smaller icebergs and eventually melt before it reaches the island's south-west coast. Dr Meijers also explained the effects the iceberg could have ...

“If the iceberg stays grounded, we don’t expect it to significantly affect the local wildlife of South Georgia,” said Andrew Meijers, an oceanographer at the BAS, in the statement. On the ...

"South Georgia sits in iceberg alley, so impacts are to be expected for both fisheries and wildlife, and both have a great capacity to adapt. "Chunks of it were tipping up, so they looked like ...