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    Scientists Learn To Hear The 'Songs' Of Ice Shelves

    Scientists have found a new way to analyze the structural integrity of ice shelves at the end of the world, through the songs the winds sing on top of them.
    by Andrew Flanagan Oct 18, 2018 1 minute
    The Ross Ice Shelf, photographed in 2003. Researchers found that by monitoring the seismic effects of wind on the surface of a shelf, they could gain insight into its structural integrity.

    The "whistling" of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica's largest, is beautifully eerie. It's also potentially a divining rod for changes to shelves' composition that can be monitored in real time.

    Listening to it, the opening moan comes to mind, or the dramatic composition from John Luther Adams:

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