A23a calved from the Filchner Ice Shelf in Antarctica in 1986 and remained grounded on the seabed in the Weddell Sea for over ...

On January 13, 2025, iceberg A-84, which is roughly the size of Chicago, broke from the George VI Ice Shelf, a giant floating ...

For every bit of the iceberg above the water's surface, there's 10 times more below, according to the expert. In the past, other mega-icebergs had fallen apart 'quickly over the course of several ...

The iceberg melts freshwater into salt water, reducing the amount of food including krill (a small crustacean) that penguins eat. The birds could move to other feeding grounds, he explains ...

Fresh water melting from the bottom of the iceberg could affect the local ocean environment and flora and fauna along the island's shoreline. Satellites will continue to monitor the iceberg and ...

Scientists scrutinizing the seafloor beneath a calving iceberg found a remarkable array ... vibrant community of critters on the seafloor below where A-84 was once attached to an ice shelf ...

Beneath a giant iceberg, a whole ecosystem never seen before ... for it so we could look at what was happening in the depths below," Dr. Patricia Esquete, the expedition cochief scientist ...

However, a side effect of the melting was the release of a colossal 152 billion tons of fresh water in close ... Georgia, the iceberg’s keel had reduced to 141 meters below the ocean surface ...

In 2020, an iceberg called A68a — previously world's largest, and the sixth largest recorded iceberg of all time — split apart near the island after impacting the shelf. A 2022 study found that A68a ...

Content continues below RELATED: The next 'largest iceberg in the world' just broke ... A 2022 study found that A68a released 152 gigatonnes of fresh water and nutrients into the ocean near ...