In 2020, it began to journey toward South Georgia. As the island is home to a plethora of biodiverse species, South Georgia’s future was in question as A23a barreled toward it for almost five years.

Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) has released satellite imagery from last month showing 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, as they ...

Weighing nearly a trillion metric tonnes (1.1 trillion tons), A23a has come to a stop off the island of South Georgia, a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean, according to a ...

Ocean tides can trigger city-sized icebergs to break off from Antarctic ice shelves, scientists said on Thursday, offering a ...

Newly released satellite footage shows the world’s largest iceberg running aground near a remote island in the South Atlantic Ocean last month. Slightly smaller than Rhode Island, A23a ...

Since stranding near South Georgia Island, several small blocks of ice have fallen off A-23A and can be seen floating in the dark blue ocean, just north of the iceberg in the new satellite image.

This handout satellite image released by Copernicus Sentinel Data 2025, shows A23 getting closer to the South Georgia Island on February 24, 2025. COPERNICUS SENTINEL DATA 2025 /AFP via Getty Images.