The world's largest iceberg is on a collision course with a remote British island, potentially putting penguins and seals in ...
The iceberg’s sides are 1,312 feet tall, and its surface area is currently a whopping 1,350 square miles, which is greater ...
away from South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, according to location coordinates from the U.S. National Ice Center. A collision with these islands could be catastrophic for the large ...
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands have a rich biodiversity and ... But global warming is driving worrying changes in Antarctica, with potentially devastating consequences for global ...
These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show just why penguins have waddled into our hearts ...
The gigantic wall of ice is moving slowly from Antarctica ... into open water beyond South Georgia, a British overseas territory some 870 miles east of the Falkland Islands. Or it could strike ...
An iceberg seen on NASA’s Aqua satellite, known as A23a, center, is visible as it heads toward South Georgia Island, top, on Jan. 15, 2025, off the coast of Antarctica. [Photo: NASA Worldview ...
A23a broke off from Antarctica’s Filchner Ice ... It is not the first huge iceberg to threaten South Georgia and the nearby Sandwich Islands. In 2004, an iceberg called A38 broke off from ...
The warmer waters north of Antarctica are melting and weakening ... This isn't the first huge iceberg to threaten South Georgia and Sandwich Islands. In 2004 one called A38 grounded on its ...
The iceberg originally calved from Antarctica's Filchner Ice ... whales and petrels,' the Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands explains on its website. This isn't the first ...