Dziak and his colleagues heard the sounds of shattering ice on underwater microphones set out to monitor submarine volcanoes near Antarctica. With a long-standing interest in the natural sounds of the ...

What does a splintering iceberg sound like underwater? Imagine the cracks and pops of an ice cube melting in a glass of lemonade multiplied on a colossal scale, say researchers from Oregon State ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. To estimate the amount of ice sloughing off glaciers and falling into rising seas, scientists may ...

Antarctica’s biggest icebergs act like giant tuning forks when they collide with each other and the sea floor (Credit: Getty Images) Icebergs produce some of the loudest natural noises in the oceans.

If a huge iceberg breaks off from Antarctica and no one’s around to hear it, did it even make a sound? That’s the question Chicago-based performance art duo, Luftwerk, answered when they took seismic ...

There is growing concern about how much noise humans generate in marine environments through shipping, oil exploration and other developments, but a new study has found that naturally occurring ...

On a special episode (first released on February 12, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Icebergs are bellwethers of environmental changes. Their formation, movement and melting offer insights into some of ...

As Ireland's Dara Ó Briain once joked on YouTube, "Science knows it doesn't know everything, otherwise it'd stop." The world is full of mysteries to solve and curious subjects to study, and no part of ...

What does a splintering iceberg sound like underwater? Imagine the cracks and pops of an ice cube melting in a glass of lemonade multiplied on a colossal scale, say researchers from Oregon State ...

Icebergs produce some of the loudest natural noises in the oceans. Can we learn anything about their birth, life and death by listening in? Hemmed in by the sea ice that forms around the continent, ...