Iceberg floats toward South Georgia, puts wildlife at risk [Island in Atlantic]

AP ^ | 04 NOV 2020 1 hr 16 min ago | Staff

[Red Badger]

In this graphic provided by the European Space Agency containing modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2020), processed by the Sentinel Hub, shows a iceberg floating towards the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. The iceberg the size of the U.S. state of Delaware is raising fears it could indirectly endanger young wildlife. The British Antarctic Survey said Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020 it is concerned the iceberg may run aground near the island and prevent land-based marine predators from reaching food supplies and returning to their offspring. (European Space Agency containing modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2020), processed by the Sentinel Hub via AP)

LONDON (AP) — A giant iceberg the size of the U.S. state of Delaware is floating toward the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, raising fears it could indirectly endanger young wildlife.

The British Antarctic Survey said Wednesday it is concerned the iceberg may run aground near the island, preventing land-based marine predators from reaching food supplies and returning to their offspring.

Professor Geraint Tarling, an ecologist with the Antarctic Survey, said it is the time of year when seals and penguins are tending to pups and chicks. The distance penguin and seal parents have to travel to find food is important.

[Red Badger]

[Rurudyne]

They’ll find votes for Biden on it any day now.

[Spitzensparkin1]

It just wants Georgia to make it a Sandwich.

[a fool in paradise]

>>prevent land-based marine predators from reaching food supplies and returning to their offspring

So some animals are gonna live because the predators didn’t kill them?

[a fool in paradise]

>> A giant iceberg the size of the U.S. state of Delaware is floating toward the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia

Biden will find way to file LLC corporations there.

[oil_dude]

This article is a JOKE! Puts wildlife at risk????

[Arkansas Toothpick]

LOL POTD

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

Put some baby humans - or worse, kids with Down Syndrome - on the iceberg and then no one will care about it at all.

[Red Badger]

Especially the polar bears!.........................

[Red Badger]

ISWYDT!....................

[ElkGroveDan]

How did the world and the animals in it get by before hand-wringing environmentalists came along? I predict the animals will do fine.

[Red Badger]

I hope it doesn’t cause it to tip over..............

[Red Badger]

Of course they will.......

[gopno1]

Stacy Abrams coming back in from a swim in the Atlantic?

[prophetic]

if its a Biden/Harris thug-ocracy running things, then I'd expect AOC to demand that they issue an urgent Executive Order to implement an Emergency Iceberg Tax on all American workers for $100/wk for the next 13 weeks (and it automatically self renews) so as to save all wildlife on that insignificant piece of uninhabited island.

She will insist on managing that Fund and will only be taking the normal management fees and expenses, which will never be audited, as she eliminated all auditing and inspection offices in Congress within her first weeks of office.

[Sequoyah101]

Don’t be stupid. It has happened before and there are still marine predators to this day.

[Professional]

Let’s use taxpayer money to interfere with iceberg drifts so we can play Mother Nature/God.

What a great idea, what could possibly go wrong...for millions of years look at how humans have outsmarted the planet!/s

[polymuser]

Intercept course plotted...

[libh8er]

Visiting South Georgia is on my Bucket List. But it costs an arm and a leg..

[mass55th]

"They’ll find votes for Biden on it any day now."

Thanks for the laugh...it's much appreciated.