It is stabilized, at least for the time being, by a phalanx of floating ice shelves, that hang off its outer edgesof which the Ross Ice Shelf is by far the largest. In a stroke of scientific luck, a big one appeared for the first time in decades. & Rowland, F. S. Nature 249, 810812 (1974). Atmos. Strahan and her colleague Anne Douglass published one of the first studies in 2018 confirming that atmospheric chlorine levels are falling in step with reduced ozone depletion over Antarctica proof that the Montreal Protocol is working.. Conspiracy theorist and journalist Linda Moulton Howe interviewed the whistleblower, named only as Brian, in a series of fascinating YouTube videos. Earths protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says. In February of 1947, Rear Admiral Richard Byrd was in charge of a gigantic procedure in the Arctic that was called Operation Highjump. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is up to 10,000 feet thick in some places. During WWII, it was a sanctuary for U-Boats and remained one of the few areas in the oceans bereft of a strong Allied military presence. Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter what matters in science, free to your inbox daily. Credits: NASA Ozone Watch. These He allegedly made the bizarre sightings between 1983 and 1997 when he was stationed with the Antarctic Development Squadron. Today, 33 years later, the ozone hole is showing its first signs of recovery. Geophys. The unexpected discovery of a hole in the atmospheric ozone layer over the Antarctic revolutionized science and helped to establish one of the most successful Nature 321, 755758 (1986). Many are military veterans. This flow, in turn, can change the currents in the Southern Ocean and potentially affect ocean circulation worldwide. Ocean measurements were also collected by seals swimming under the sea ice with temporary satellite tags, showing normal water conditions in the years that did not have large polynyas.Dan Costa/University of California, Santa Cruz, This study shows that this polynya is actually caused by a number of factors that all have to line up for it to happen, said co-author Stephen Riser, a UW professor of oceanography. In an age of human-caused climate change, thats a valuable insight, because rising temperatures could alter the frequency or intensity of polar cyclones, potentially affecting the occurrence of these polynyas and, in turn, global ocean circulation. Interestingly, the said moment of the historic exploration was caught on camera thanks to a researcher who lowered his camera down an 83 meter hole in the continent. In 1977, researchers drilled through the ice shelf 300 miles in from its seaward edge (about 80 miles inland from the current holes), and in 2015 a team drilled through the back corner of the ice shelf, 500 miles in from its seaward edge. Scherer, a micro-paleontologist now at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, found this subglacial mud chockablock full of microscopic diatom shellsbeautiful glassy objects, reminiscent of fine vases. Scientists will leave sensors in the hole to better understand the long-term changes in the ice, which may have big implications for global sea level. A great many people compare the ozone depletion problem and the climate change problem. 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He is considered to have been an extremely brave and honest man. Update: This article has been updated to clarify that the cyclone in question formed in the Weddell sea, but migrated east over the Lazarev sea where it generated a polynya. But he believes it could also have collapsed as recently as 120,000 years ago, the last time that temperatures were about as warm as they are today. Navy Seal Reveals Secret Mission to Ancient Buried Structure in At 3:29 p.m. on November 28, 1929, Byrd, the pilot Bernt Balchen, and two others took off from Little America in the Floyd Bennett, headed for the South Pole. I am the historian at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Now, a team of researchers has bored a hole through the ice and sampled the ocean beneath it. There are also indications other animals may be fixed to the boulder, such as tube worms, stalked barnacles, or hydroids, which are related to jellyfish. According to some, Bryd had actually found an additional world in the Hollow Earth, though his journal was mysteriously removed by the government. Changes in the ice surface of the Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica reveal the rapid draining of a lake deep below in 2019. in Stratospheric Ozone Depletion and Climate Change (ed. But to their surprise, the camera showed colonies of stationary animals attached to the rock probably sponges and related sea creatures. Their work could shed light on a poorly understood, but ominous Press, 1998). The study also used data from the long-running Argo ocean observing program, elephant seals that beam data back to shore, weather stations and decades of satellite images. Its European Space Agency equivalent, CryoSat-2, collected similar data starting in 2010 but over a broader area and with less precision. WebThere is a hole presumably allowing a very civilization to dwell inside the world. We were looking for, at most, a few percent change in ozone and we werent necessarily looking in Antarctica. Video shows discovery of sea-sponges living nearly half a mile beneath Antarctica ice. He went on to become the single greatest polar explorer of the century, a feat recognized by the American government when they awarded him the, Admiral Richard Byrd referred to Antarctica as, Id like to see that land past the North Pole, it is the Center of the Great Unknown., A legend among those in the know was that Adolph Hitler did not die due to a suicide in 1945, but fled to Argentina, to an SS base carved under the ice in New Swabia during the very early 1950s, where he resumed his passion as a painter. The Commonwealth has been found guilty of two charges over the 2016 death of a helicopter pilot in Antarctica. Which travel companies promote harmful wildlife activities? It means that 41% of its "This did not make any sense to any of us on the crew because on two different occasions we had to fly over this area. SOCCOM is funded by the National Science Foundation. It comes after sensational claims surfaced that NASA was hiding a "sinister secret" about the moon. A recent study, published in The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, has found that individuals who use electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, experience greater lung inflammation compared to cigarette smokers and non-smokers. Todays 5-year-olds will likely live to 100, How to take better care of your aging brain, See glow-in-the-dark mushrooms in Brazils other rain forest, 9 things to know about Holi, Indias most colorful festival, Anyone can discover a fossil on this beach. It is locked beneath a crust of ice larger than Spain and more than 1,000 feet thick, making its waters perpetually darkand extremely difficult for humans to access. Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, "[The size of] a cavity under a glacier plays an important role in melting," said Pietro Milillo of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. These lakes fill and drain over and over again in largely mysterious cycles that may influence how fast the ice sheet moves and how and where meltwater reaches the Southern Ocean. The unexpected discovery of a hole in the atmospheric ozone layer over the Antarctic revolutionized science and helped to establish one of the most successful global environmental policies of the twentieth century. Scientists fear that some of these ice shelves are already weakening. When is it going to stop?. In order to survive, the organisms would have to feed on floating material from other animals or plants, because it is impossible for plants to photosynthesize in the sunless seawater. It became the ozone hole and it seems to me that it certainly made it easier to reach a greater part of the public by having a simple key word that you could describe it by. Who created it? He was killed for his knowledge. Atmos. The Ross Ice Shelf is considered more stable, at present, than many of West Antarcticas other floating shelvesand this observation could help explain that: if a few inches of sea water periodically freezes onto the bottom of its ice, this could buffer it from thinning more rapidly. Stephanie received a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of South Carolina and a graduate certificate in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz. It is The Goddard team was scooped and they knew it. As Heuz put it, everythings connected.. A legend among those in the know was that Adolph Hitler did not die due to a suicide in 1945, but fled to Argentina, to an SS base carved under the ice in New Swabia during the very early 1950s, where he resumed his passion as a painter. I was given the task of writing the programmes, supervising the digitisation of the data and processing it. Live Science is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Torge Martin, a meteorologist and climate modeler at the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany, told Earther via email that the studys authors make a valuable contribution to explaining the occurrence of the polynya, and they are correct in arguing that the atmospheric side has been less studied in the past., This is because the preconditioning in the ocean is essential, Martin wrote. When we were working up to publishing our paper, concerns had been expressed that these CFCs might destroy the ozone layer, that exhaust gases from Concorde might destroy the ozone layer, and the general thoughts were that any destruction would probably take place at high altitude in the tropics. Susan Solomon is in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. Atmos. We need to improve our models so we can study this process, which could have larger-scale climate implications.. Over forty ships, including the Navys crown jewel, William Cooper goes into greater detail in the, In 1964, Dr. Raymond W. Bernard, was a leader of the Rosicrucians, who are members of a worldwide cabal, especially the Ancient Mystic Order, Rosae Crucis and the Rosicrucian Order, focused his research on old magical, philosophical, and religious teachings, concerned with the application of these doctrines to modern life. It is not clear to me to this day who coined the term ozone hole and when and where it was done. 1). First Steps to Recovery. But once it does, we have the knowledge and the technology to do something about it. pic.twitter.com/BI3Ycq63VP Any type of area with caves are otherwise considered to be on federal government property. Res. The retired petty officer, 59, claimed to have been seen UFOs, aliens and a giant hole in the ice as he flew through a "no fly zone" in Antartica. Eyring, V. et al. So, when the British Antarctic Survey paper is published in 1985, a lot of people are rather shocked because during the early 1980s, they werent sure whether there was evidence of depletion and thats because its a difficult question to answer. All of these changes are puzzle pieces in scientists' understanding of the speed and direction of Antarctica's ice sheet flow. Past the South Pole is the great unknown. 2023 Cable News Network. Some of the Special Reports available at the Benedick, R. A. Ozone Diplomacy: New Directions in Safeguarding the Planet (Harvard Univ. Bats and agaves make tequila possibleand theyre both at risk. A Warner Bros. My name is Erik Conway. They claimed that to be the protectors of planet Earth to protect its inhabitants from the scurrilous activities of the power brokers and nefarious government agencies with impure agendas. So said the great explorer, Admiral Richard Byrd. So, they ultimately wound up corroborating the British Antarctic Surveys story and getting a bit of egg on their faces too. Where and how its created affects its characteristics, and would have ripple effects on other major ocean currents. We had a period of about ten years where the data hadnt been reduced and doing it manually was quite time consuming. 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The retired petty officer, 59, claimed to have been seen UFOs, aliens and a giant hole in the ice as he flew through a "no fly zone" in Antartica. But theres a lot of work ahead before. Recently, scientists discovered a weak spot in the ozone layer over Antarctica. Additional funding is from the NSF, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the University of Washington and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. This particular spot far from the Antarctic coast often has small openings and has seen large polynyas before. NY 10036. de Zafra, R. L. et al. After the visit, Byrd and his crew were guided back to the outer area of the Earth. As the lakes drain and fill, the ice above rises and falls, offering hints as to what's happening below. The research explores why this hole appears in only some years, and what role it could play in the larger ocean circulation. Thats likely no accident. A large carbon outgassing event could really whack the climate system if it happened multiple years in a row.. Reed Scherer made this discovery back in 1998 while studying mud that had been plucked from beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, through another borehole, 100 miles inland from the back edge of the ice shelf. Atmos. We are cooperating fully with the investigating authorities at this time.. Why wetlands are so critical for life on Earth, Rest in compost? Ravishankara, A. R. & Hanson, D. R. J. Geophys. The harvesting of fish and plant life are also affected. 92, 83298338 (1987). All of a sudden, you look at it differently wow, we really can affect the planet as a whole. This thinning of the ozone layer over Antarctica came to be known as the ozone hole. They had expected the seafloor to be mud, but were dismayed when they hit a boulder, which meant they couldnt get the intended sediment samples. The aviator was staying in a home in Sherwood Forest, a neighborhood right next to the University of Memphis Park Avenue campus. In doing so, they hoped to answer a question of worldwide importance: just how secure is the ice of West Antarctica? 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The last time I was at Rothera, we couldnt do that because the ice level had dropped so much that the water just spilled out into the sea and Ive seen the glaciers retreating, slowly, admittedly, but I can see that theyre going back and yes, change is very obvious along the Antarctic Peninsula. Chem., 2011). Unlike in Greenland, where meltwater flows from the ice surface through crevasses and holes called moulins, Antarctica's lakes form from beneath the ice, probably as a result of pressure, friction and perhaps geothermal heat. New AI may pass the famed Turing test. 33, L10812 (2006). These are the first observations to prove that even a smaller polynya like the one in 2016 moves water from the surface all the way to the deep ocean. A vast amount of aquatic life has its beginnings. Cryptic lost Canaanite language decoded on 'Rosetta Stone'-like tablets, The ultimate action-packed science and technology magazine bursting with exciting information about the universe, Subscribe today and save an extra 5% with checkout code 'LOVE5', Engaging articles, amazing illustrations & exclusive interviews, Issues delivered straight to your door or device. Web6.1M views 2 years ago The Moon rotates around the Earth at about the same speed, as it does around its axis, thats why we can only see one side of it. The idea that cyclones can trigger the polynya raises the possibility that it will crop up more often in the future, with rising temperatures expected to intensify polar cyclone activity. Lett. You had to learn how to find the right 9 track tape in a room full of tapes, and its really ironic to look at it today because the satellite was taking about 5 GB of data per year and at that time, when you said that, people were overwhelmingly impressed and now I think a lot of people probably run that through their smartphone every month. But the question of how these animals get food will have to wait until another scientific expedition can visit the spot, perhaps equipped with a remotely operated underwater vehicle that can recover samples of the animals. All this speculation begs the question: Just what happened with Admiral Byrd in the North Pole? Researchers say a massive cavity the size of two-thirds of Manhattan was found under a glacier in Antarctica. Meanwhile, the lakes beneath Academy Glacier drained between 2009 and 2018. This certainly had more of a military signature rather than an innocent exploration. Its being called an unprecedented display of international cooperation to protect the worlds environment. These animals can sniff it out. Not according to biology or history. Can we bring a species back from the brink?, Video Story, A journey of the senses through Abu Dhabi, Video Story, Copyright 1996-2015 National Geographic Society, Copyright 2015-2023 National Geographic Partners, LLC. So, when the Goddard folks mapped all these flags of potentially bad data, they were all over the Antarctic, exactly where the British Antarctic Survey said it should be. (See more of the world below Antarctic ice.). The winter ice on the The hole in the sea ice offshore of the Antarctic coast as seen by a NASA satellite on Sept. 25, 2017. What we discovered at our Antarctic station was quite curious. It seemed that each Antarctic spring which for the Antarctic is September, October ozone levels were dropping. Police said someone opened fire on the crash pad just after midnight. Admiral Richard Byrd referred to Antarctica as The Land of Everlasting Mystery and of the North Pole he said: Id like to see that land past the North Pole, it is the Center of the Great Unknown.. See Admiral Byrd Diary for more details on what was apparently in his secret diary relating to Admiral Richard Byrds expedition of the North Pole. ISSN 0028-0836 (print). 21, 11911194 (1994). Analysis shows that when the surface ocean is especially salty, as seen throughout 2016, strong winter storms can set off an overturning circulation. Heres why each season begins twice. The ethnographic museum of the past is making its way to the exit.. Only twice before have humans pierced the deep interior of the Ross Ice Shelf to study its underlying ocean. Scientists have peered into one of the least-explored swaths of ocean on Earth, a vast region located off the coast of West Antarctica. Thank you for visiting nature.com. A National Geographic team has made the first ascent of the remote Mount Michael, looking for a lava lake in the volcanos crater. Many scientists told me that, in fact, they trusted the British Antarctic Survey people. 2019 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. Once this water reaches the surface that carbon could be released. It's thought both types of stationary animals are types of sponges or are related to sponges, but scientists did not expect to find them beneath the ice shelf, in pitch-blackness and hundreds of miles from the coast. CBS News climate and weather contributor Jeff Berardelli reports that the cavity is likely a significant finding because the West Antarctic ice sheet is considered one of the most unstable and vulnerable. The undersides of ice shelves are usually smooth due to gradual melting. This machine generated a powerful jet of hot water, which they used to melt two narrow holes, each a few inches across, more than 1,100 feet down to the bottom of the ice. It seems the animals attached to the boulder drifted there as microscopic larvae, and then grew into their adult forms: life is everywhere and the environment selects the species that eventually thrive., A future stage will be to determine if the animals are similar to those in the open ocean, or if they had evolved to live where they are now, Priscu said in an email. Changes to the polynya could, in other words, ripple outward across Earths oceans. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. What they found in that paper was, during the springtime, a 40% or more decline and that that 40% only ten years earlier was not there, so this happened very rapidly. "The reason stated because of a air sampling camp in that area. The gap in the Antarctic is said to be where these creatures fly out and fly back in. Curators are realizing that returning looted artifacts isnt closing museumsits opening new doors. In 1925 there was a singular man on a mission to explore desolate lands rarely seen by humans to that time Admiral Richard Byrd. Under climate change, fresh water from melting glaciers and other sources will make the Southern Oceans surface layer less dense, which might mean fewer polynyas in the future. Its just a theory. Right now people think most of the bottom water is forming on the Antarctic shelf, but these big offshore polynyas might have been more common in the past, Riser said. (Learn about the Maine-size hole in Antarctica.). Res. The inquiry that still stays is that Admiral Byrd did make a trip past the post but this flight wasnt in February of 1947. The geologists were more than 150 miles from the open ocean when they bored a hole through the 3,000-foot-thick ice with a hot-water drill and lowered a coring device and a video camera into the dark seawater below it. Ex-Navy pilot says he saw UFOs that did things his plane could not do. Its a huge area, but we have a tiny widow into it, Griffiths said. Comes with twelve different courses comprised of a huge number of lessons, and each one will help you learn more about Python itself, and can be accessed when you want and as often as you want forever, making it ideal for learning a new skill. And, of course, there was nothing there. Admiral Richard Byrd created a fantastic reputation in the history of the US Navy. [If] the organisms evolved to live beneath ice shelves, they may provide us with a molecular clock that can be used to gauge past climate driven changes in Antarctic ice., The discovery shows that life can exist in environments where science suggests it should not: There are still things that we have to learn, Griffiths said. Total ozone has been measured at the British Antarctic Survey stations, Argentine islands and Halley Bay since 1957. It is said that there is a US regulation to prevent citizens from checking out caverns and holes in the polar regions. Police said there are no witnesses to the shooting, no surveillance video, no suspect information or motive. Other co-authors on the paper are Kent Moore at the University of Toronto, who was the 2016-17 Canada Fulbright Visiting Chair in Arctic Studies at the UW; Casey Brayton at the University of South Carolina; and Lynne Talley and Matthew Mazloff from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. Farman et al. Two SOCCOM instruments were trapped in the vortex above Maud Rise and recorded years of observations there. In the new study, Siegfried and Fricker combined data from ICESat, CryoSat-2 and ICESat-2 to trace changes in the subglacial lake system from October 2003 to July 2020. Cold, dark and alive! We thought this large hole in the sea ice known as a polynya was something that was rare, maybe a process that had gone extinct. In 1938, a pilot named Isaac Schlossbach flew an airplane over the region where Crocker Land was supposed to be. 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