While global temperature changes may be fueling the melting of the polar ice caps, there is something worth celebrating in the arctic. Lithuania brings back military conscription. According to China Daily, in 1980 Peng led an expedition into the Lop Nur desert, a dangerous landscape full of soft riverbeds and shifting sand dunes, which made for treacherous traveling conditions. For Russian geologist Vladimir Rusanov, it was Northern Sea Route fever. And because the 2.7 million-year . Yes, that's just shockingly boring, but "got lost while hiking" is really a lot more plausible than "was kidnapped by people who don't like math" or "got abducted by aliens who want to learn algebra." They wrote software to help volunteers sift through thousands of satellite images in search of Gray's red and white boat, and they enlisted the help of Google Earth satellites. So, this continent has a profound effect on our planet. Jim Gray went on a sailing trip in 2007 and was never seen again. Dr Ben Galton-Fenzi - glaciologist. Later at a camp near Marie Byrd Land, some dozen scientists disappeared for two weeks. EVERYTHING OLD IS Q AGAIN VIDEO: Loading from Exposing Corruption: LISTEN!! Unusually warm temperatures broke several records in both Antarctica and the Arctic late last week. Prepared in cooperation with United States Antarctic Program, National Science Foundation U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Activities in the Exploration of Antarctica: 1995-96 Field Season Ice fog. A view of the trapped Akademik Shokalskiy from across the ice in Antarctica. Scientists the world over are watching the Antarctic and Greeland ice sheets with keen interest, because as they melt in response to global warming, global sea level will rise, wiping out coastal communities. A defecting Russian scientist has surfaced with a mind-bending account of what REALLY occurred when he and his colleagues went missing for five days in a mysterious lake 12,366 feet beneath the Antarctic ice. On June 17, the team was running low on vital supplies, so Peng walked out of camp, leaving only a note to inform his companions that he was going to go look for water. Its not just physically challenging, its psychologically challenging, Pearce said. Gray set off in sunny weather on a voyage that was only supposed to take one day. Christian Haas, head of the Sea Ice Physics Research Section at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany, told CNN. Click here for larger map. A campaign to the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf led by NASA glaciologist Bob Bindschadler measured variables such as water temperature and melting . 'The chances of finding them now are negligible,' said Dr. Richard Laws, director of the British Antarctic Survey Monday. The animals inhabit a wedge of . The whistleblower has alleged there is an alien base in the Antarctic. Or if you just like to go on crazy, exotic vacations by yourself. 10 - The Pyramids of Antarctica. The goal is to collect data on climate, geology, oceanography, and ecology to compare with the detailed observations of Mawson's expedition a century before. If we observe less melting that doesnt change the fact that its retreating.. Technically, this dude is dead. What happened instead captured the. Ice shelves are made mostly of the second type of Antarctic ice: land ice. Every now and then one of them pokes out accidentally and photographs are taken, but by the time anyone looks again, the snow is heaped back over it and it disappears from view. On top of providing evidence of a vast ecosystem beneath the ice, nobody expected to find any kind of life there, let alone a hidden world under Antarctica. But he is still missing because no one has found his body or any trace of him since he disappeared in 1925. Akademik Shokalskiy. Dr Mike Double Leader, Australian Marine Mammal Centre. The three were last heard from Aug. 13 near Petermann Island, 6 miles from their Faraday Antarctic research base. Williams noticed that a lot of kids visiting his practice shared some characteristics in addition to their cardiovascular problems, they also had similar facial features and were especially friendly and outgoing. Antarctica is often considered the coldest, driest, and iciest place on Earth. DEEP WOO: DID MUSKS OPEN A.I. Get a daily look at whats developing in science and technology throughout the world. The studies authors claim the melting of these cracks may become the primary trigger for ice shelf collapse.. "We just wanted to let all our family and friends know there is no risk to the vessel and everyone is well," he wrote on the expedition's website. According to the BBC, the last time anyone saw or heard from Weisfeiler was in January 1985. Two studies published Aug. 10 and led by researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California reveal unexpected new data about how the Antarctic Ice Sheet has been losing mass in recent decades. Terry Holland, who transformed Virginia basketball, dies. Another 10 years there probably wont be many left, said Turney. But unlike many of the people on this list, he wasn't technically gone in 2011 Pediatric Radiology saidfriends recalled meeting him in Austria in the mid-1970s, and even though his sister had the High Court of New Zealand declare him "a missing person presumed to be dead from 1978," there is evidence he might have been alive as recently as 2000. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. Alexandrov wasn't just any physicist (as if there's such a thing as "just any physicist") he came up with the mathematical model for nuclear winter. As the story went global, the venture came in for plenty of criticism. Passengers from the Shokalskiy constructed a makeshift helipad on the ice alongside the vessel, and on Jan. 2 a helicopter from Xue Long airlifted the scientists 14 nautical miles to the Aurora Australis. Emilia Clarke on why she turned down 'Fifty Shades' role. It took nearly six months to get all the samples through quarantine.. Commonwealth Bay has experienced substantial changes in recent years. The 30 mile-long slab of ice smashed into the nearby Mertz glacier tongue and grounded itself at the entrance to the bay. Several factors may feed into why sea ice is so low, including winds, ocean currents and ocean heat. At any rate, one such disappearance was the case of Boris Weisfeiler, a mathematician who decided one day that Pennsylvania winters were just too danged warm so he was going to go hiking in the mountains of southern Chile. And that's a shame. Then, a few weeks later, he was seen boarding a bus. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. Thwaites contributes to about 4% of annual sea level rise due to shedding billions of tons of ice into the ocean, according to researchers. The National Science Foundation has funded major field campaigns to West Antarctica, including POLENET, which place Global Positioning System (GPS) stations in the area to measure geological changes. The Russians have their own way of dealing with things, particularly the media, which I respect, he told FoxNews.com. 00:25. "An Antarctic research station is like a remote mining town, but because it's nobody's permanent . The team from Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) have been drilling for weeks in an effort to reach isolated Lake Vostok, a vast, dark body of water hidden 13,000 ft. below . Such changes were bound to impact on life beneath the ice. Published Jul 16, 2008. Shortly thereafter, the Aurora Australis, too, had to halt its efforts to reach the trapped scientists and crew. That morning Brian received a surprising and disturbing phone call. "Temps are dropping below -40 Celsius [-40 degrees Fahrenheit] and they have only a week or so left before they have to winterize the station," Dr. John Priscu -- professor of ecology at Montana State University and former head of the Whillans Antarctic exploration program -- told FoxNews.com via email. "The only question mark really is whether we'll have any time to stop at Macquarie Island," he told Popular Mechanics. See Websites below. Scientists from Project MIDAS had been monitoring a break in the Larsen C ice shelf - the fourth-largest in Antarctica - following the collapse of the Larsen A ice shelf in 1995 and had. According to Time, in 1985, a Soviet physicist named Vladimir Alexandrov was visiting Madrid when he vanished. Like so many other stories of mysterious disappearances, though, we won't know until Alexandrov either comes out of hiding or rises from the dead. Legal Statement. He couldn't come down without the crampon, so one of his two companions went to find a spare and when he returned, Mutch was gone. On Dec. 20, the expedition reached the hut left by Mawson 100 years ago. Temperatures in the area had gone up sharply Aug. 14, probably melting sea ice, and then had fallen quickly to minus 16, Laws said. At the time, he sounded optimistic about the expedition's prospects. Were all waiting with bated breath, he said. Repeatedly the crew was sternly told that they did NOT see what they kept seeing. Now to be fair, he was known for doing research alone in remote places, but he was an anthropologist, so it's unlikely he would have been conducting research in places totally devoid of other humans. Into the seasonal dead zone, a real story had dropped. . We could have probably driven back to New Zealand." July 17 (UPI) -- CPI Aerostructures has secured a five-year contract worth $21 million to manufacture and supply fuel panel assemblies for Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters. Australian vessel Aurora Australis was on its way to the scene at the time, and Turney said that the expedition members were in good spirits and putting the time to good use as they awaited the expected rescue. Peng's colleagues don't seem to find his disappearance as mysterious as the public did the Lop Nur landscape is almost carnivorous, and the idea that it could swallow someone up without a trace is certainly not fantastic. There's more to Antarctica than we bargained for. Princess Elisabeth research station in Antarctica faces wind speeds of up to 155 mph and temperatures as low as -58F. ORENBURG, Russia, April 16 (UPI) -- A teenage dance group in Russia is under investigation by officials after a twerking performance video went viral this week. "I can only imagine what things must be like at Vostok Station this week," he said. That was all in real time, live, so we can actually bring Antarctica to the public back at home. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. Live Science features groundbreaking developments in science, space, technology, health, the environment, our culture and history. The large hole was said to be five to ten miles from the South Pole, in the supposed no fly zone. VILNIUS, Lithuania, March 20 (UPI) -- Military conscription returns to Lithuania amid Eastern Europe's military tension. The fear is that the melting now taking place could lead to a return to open ocean. Because he vanished nearly 100 years ago and even if he ended up living in a luxurious jungle palace where he ate only vegetables and seafood and never developed cancer or scurvy or fell on anything sharp, he still died of old age some time between 1947 and 1987, if you're being optimistic. 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For years rumors have persisted that on his historic flight to the North Pole, Admiral Byrd flew beyond the Pole into an opening leading inside the Earth. They believe the forest is the oldest one known to exist in the southern polar. Image courtesy Brian. When youre outside, its extremely cold -- minus 30, minus 40, microbiologist Dr. David A. Pearce told FoxNews.com. 2. Mysterious Antarctica. Its a remarkable achievement and one that will hopefully continue to shed light on this cold and mysterious part of the world. Sudden Disappearance. A rescue mission swung into operation. Hewas known for his work with Thakali traders in the upper Kaligandaki river valley and as a professor at Tribhuvan University in Nepal. Turney and his team are especially interested in learning whether the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is stable or in danger of melting, studying shifts in the circulation of the Southern Ocean, and noting changes in populations of marine mammals, birds, and plant life. Although today it is considered inhospitable, it exerts an almost magically attractive force over mankind. You look at satellite information, you look at trends and what the data's showing, you keep an eye on the weather the whole time. We all went to a local Mexican restaurant and after dinner, we kept talking until after midnight outside in the restaurant parking lot under trees. What happened on that flight? What has happened in Commonwealth Bay may be echoed around the continent in the future. Some people think the boat sank and fell over the continental shelf, where it would be impossible to find. The scientists may have encountered a technical issue, he speculated, or perhaps theyve simply packed up and are travelling home -- keeping their discoveries to themselves. 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