Scientists monitoring the giant A68a iceberg from space reveal that a huge amount of freshwater was released as it melted around the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. An estimated 152 billion ...

Robotic gliders will be used to gather measurements under and around the iceberg A team of scientists is being sent to the South Atlantic to study the giant iceberg A68a. The 3,900-sq-km behemoth ...

For example, iceberg A68a once threatened the island of South Georgia when it was the world’s largest in 2020. Other big bergs have been whittled away, allowing A23a to reclaim its crown ...

In 2020, iceberg A68a also made a run for the landmass, but ultimately lost steam just southeast of the island before breaking apart and disintegrating into thousands of pieces. Had A68a become ...

Scientists will deploy two Slocum gliders to collect data from the A68a iceberg ... MOD show that the iceberg is breaking up. The team will investigate the impact of freshwater from the melting ...

Some large icebergs persist for quite a while, as with infamous berg A68a. A68a was seen as a threat to sensitive wildlife on South Georgia Island in 2020. That iceberg eventually shattered ...

In 2017, an iceberg called A68a broke off from the Antarctic ice shelf, before spending three years travelling more than 10,000 miles towards South Georgia. Thankfully, A68a safely passed by the ...

The iceberg followed a route similar to the one that the iceberg A68a took. It also spent several months spinning. Usually, ...