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A team of polar researchers from the British Antarctic Survey will be sailing from the Falkland Islands, bound for an iceberg that has been floating off the waters of the island of South Georgia for several weeks. For more than three years, A68a was the biggest iceberg in the world but warmer climes and more aggressive seas gradually pulled it apart as it moved northwards away from Antarctica into the South Atlantic. Newshour's James Coomarasamy heard more from the expedition's chief scientist, Povl Abrahamsen. Photo: View of the A-68A iceberg from a Royal Air Force reconnaissance plane near South George island. Credit: Reuters
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