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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The waters of the fjords of Svalbard—the Arctic archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole—are known to snap, crackle and pop with the sound of melting icebergs and glaciers. Now new ...

The birth of an iceberg can be violent. When they are sloughed off glaciers, these calving chunks of ice are accompanied by shotgun cracks of sound and crashing waves. Once loose, icebergs drift out ...