#coustics

The Icebergs Are Talking. We Just Have To Listen.

http://www.npr.org/2015/02/01/382980142/the-icebergs-are-talking-we-just-have-to-listen

Giant chunks of ice break away from the Hans Glacier in Svalbard, Norway, in 2013. Courtesy Oskar Glowacki

If a glacier cracks and nobody hears it, does it still make a sound? “Oh, they moan and they groan,” says Grant Deane, a researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “They crackle and rumble and…