At its peak, the iceberg was melting at a rate of 7 meters per month, and in total it released a staggering 152 billion tons of fresh water and nutrients. “This is a huge amount of melt water ...

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 ...

Destruction by the iceberg will release this stored carbon back into the water and, potentially, the atmosphere, which would be a further negative impact.” “However, whilst we are interested ...

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, but that ...

For several months, the iceberg had been locked up in a Taylor Column, one of the most rare oceanographic phenomena. In this phenomenon, a rotating water mass above a seamount traps a column of ...