The world's largest iceberg has run aground in Antarctica and may soon start breaking up, scientists at the British Antarctic Survey have said. A23a, as the iceberg is known, appears to have come to a ...

Iceberg twice the size of Greater London runs aground near South Georgia - The British Antarctic Survey says nutrients from the grounding and melting of the megaberg known as ‘A23a’ may boost food for ...

One thousand feet above the world's largest iceberg, it's hard to believe what you're seeing. It stretches all the way to the horizon - a field of white as far as the eye can see. Its edge looks ...

A23a “has been watched closely” by BAS since then. Meijers said the iceberg “appears to be maintaining its structure and has not yet broken up into smaller chunks, as previous ‘megabergs ...

He said satellite tracking shows the iceberg appears to be maintaining its structure and has not yet broken up into smaller chunks as previous “megabergs” have done. Icebergs of this size are ...

The world's largest and oldest iceberg A23a weighing about 1 trillion tons has stopped drifting, most likely it ran aground on the continental shelf of the subantarctic island of South Georgia and the ...

And although the iceberg appears to be maintaining its structure for now, in recent decades large icebergs that have taken this route “soon break up, disperse and melt,” said Meijers.