World's Largest Iceberg Stalls

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A23a: World's biggest iceberg runs aground off remote island

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World's largest iceberg runs aground in shallow waters off remote British island of South Georgia .

Scientists say huge amounts of nutrients are locked inside the ice and that as it melts, it could create an explosion of life in the ocean.

Fisherman fear they will be forced to battle with vast chunks of ice, and it could affect some macaroni penguins.

A sign that this nutrient release has started around A23a will be when vast phytoplankton blooms blossom around the iceberg. It would look like a vast green halo around the ice, visible from satellite pictures over the next weeks and months . The life cycle of icebergs is a natural process, but climate change is expected to create more icebergs as Antarctica warms and becomes more unstable. More could break away from the continent's vast ice sheets and melt at quicker rates, disrupting patterns of wildlife and fishing in the region..

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