With the icebergs covering the seafloor, organisms below the shelf cannot get nutrients for survival from the surface. The ...

When the A-84 iceberg calved in January, it unveiled a 209-square-mile swath of seafloor. Nearby scientists rushed to the ...

A calving iceberg exposed a region that never before had been seen by human eyes, revealing a vibrant, thriving ecosystem ...

The drifting iceberg released itself free three decades after it latched onto the seafloor of the Weddell Sea but was once ...

In large part thanks to being in the right place at the right time, researchers discovered a thriving marine ecosystem ...

A, after years of drifting, now appears stuck near South Georgia Island. Once lodged in the Southern Weddell Sea for decades, ...

But this newborn iceberg, dubbed A-84 ... It makes me wonder just what is happening in the water under the ice shelf.' Ice shelves are permanent floating sheets of ice that connect to a landmass.

Science and technology editor Tom Clarke has been flying over A23a, the world's largest iceberg, and seen first-hand its vast ...

But the melting iceberg may also bring positive changes to the environment, Meijers added, by dispensing huge amounts of nutrients into the water that, in turn, "could actually boost populations ...

"Instead of a big, sheer pristine box of ice, you can see caverns under the edges," Prof ... British Antarctic Survey. The iceberg melts freshwater into salt water, reducing the amount of food ...