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UK government ministers rejected this as inappropriate, and ordered that ship be called RRS Sir David Attenborough.

Prof Griffiths and Prof Johnston are working on the Sir David Attenborough ship collecting evidence of what their team believe is a huge flow of nutrients from ice in Antarctica across Earth.

"The future of all icebergs is that they will die. It's very surprising to see that A23a has lasted this long and only lost about a quarter of its area," said Prof Huw Griffiths, speaking to BBC News from the Sir David Attenborough polar research ship currently in Antarctica.

Teddy, whose hero is David Attenborough, previously told the BBC he was "angry" when he found out that the containers could not be recycled in his family's normal recycling bin.

Teddy, whose hero is David Attenborough, told the BBC: "We have one planet and we need to look after it."