A, the world’s oldest and largest (about the size of Rhode Island), may hit South Georgia Island, home to vulnerable penguins and seabirds.

The jagged fragment has an area of roughly 31 sq miles (80 sq km) - just a fraction of the approximately 1,297 sq miles ...

A23a, arguably the world’s largest and oldest iceberg which has been wandering through the South Atlantic and headed for the British Overseas Territory of the South Georgia Islands since last ...

It is more than twice the size of Greater London. But the world's largest iceberg, known as A23a, is starting to crumble. Satellite images reveal that an enormous chunk has broken off the ...

open image in gallery This image provided by the Ministry of Defence shows the iceberg, known as A23a, on Nov. 25, 2024, off the coast of Antarctica (AP) The floating giant, compared to Game of ...

According to experts, in the past, other mega-icebergs fell apart within a few weeks after the first loss of their pieces. Therefore, scientists cannot say for sure what will happen to the A23a ...

For the first time, a massive chunk, almost the size of Paris, has broken off the world's largest iceberg, A23a, according to satellite images analyzed by experts. The phenomenon marks a new stage in ...

Roughly 3,500 square kilometers across, the world’s biggest and oldest iceberg, known as A23a, calved from the Antarctic shelf in 1986. It remained stuck for over 30 years before finally breaking free ...

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The sheer scale of Earth's plastic problem has been laid bare in a new study. Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have discovered microplastics in the snow near some of Antarctica ...