“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 ...

The trillion-ton slab of ice — called a megaberg — is currently aground near the South Georgia Island. A23a could affect the marine life on the island, including penguins and seals ...

The biggest iceberg in the world, named A23a, appears to have run aground after drifting around the Southern Ocean near Antarctica since 2020. Weighing nearly a trillion metric tonnes (1.1 trillion ...