Sounds Of A Dying Glacier

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Scottish artist Katie Paterson set up a phone line to an Icelandic glacier and invited people to call up and listen as it melted away. Catherine Brahic blogging at NewScientist reports how Paterson dropped a waterproof microphone into the water near Glacier Vatnajokull and hooked the microphone up to a mobile phone. Check out Paterson’s diary and photographs or listen to the sounds of the dying glacier. . . Eerily beautiful in an emo kind of way. –JULIA WHITTY