Estimated to weigh one trillion tons!
After a large chunk of ice breaks away, sunlight, plankton and fish take over and transform the ecosystem pretty quickly, marine biologist Phil Trathan explained to Live Science last year.
”It will be sort of a chain reaction. As you get productivity happening then you’ll get more species coming in, and so there will be quite significant changes over relatively short time scales.”
Courtesy of an international agreement, the area will be off-limits for any commercial operations – fishing included – for two years at the least
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