14 DAY TRIAL // A new study in the journal Oceanography warns that global warming is likely to up noise pollution levels in the Antarctica.
The study shows that, as local ice sheets begin to crack and break ever more often, local waters will get increasingly noisy.
The video above documents the noise a single iceberg produced after breaking free from the Antarctica in 2007.
Until it melted in its entirety, the block of ice ran aground, collided with another iceberg, and eventually started cracking and breaking into numerous bits and pieces.
Each of these phenomena produced very distinct sounds, all of which were perceivable in the iceberg's proximity.
“It turns out there's an unbelievable amount of ice noise. There are indications that the ice noise we're detecting can be heard as far north as the equator,” marine geologist Robert Dziak said, as cited by Live Science.