Crash of Byrd’s Fokker in Antarctica 1929

Richard Byrd took three airplanes on his first Antarctic Expedition 1928-29. In March, 1929, he sent three men in the Fokker to the Rockefeller Mountains for geologic studies. A blizzard roared in, hurled the plane in the air, and slammed it down on the ice completely...

Drilling Ice Cores in Greenland

A group of scientists is drilling through Arctic ice to find out what’s happening in the middle of the ice field, and how that could affect all of...