BY: SINEAD MULHERN Imagine getting paid to hike, swim, camp and climb. That’s the job that Canadian outdoor brand Woods is offering to two individuals this summer. The brand is looking for two people to take on travelling the 17,000…
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Armed rangers fight to protect the last male northern white rhino left on Earth
BY: JESSICA BEUKER In the last 50 years, the rhino population of Africa has dropped 96 per cent. This is largely due to the greed and ignorance of poachers. Rhino horn has two main uses – ornamental use and traditional…
Together a blind man and double amputee have planted over 10,000 trees in China
“I am his hands, and he is my eyes” says Jia Haixia, 53, who was born with a cataract in one eye and left completely blind after work-related accident in 2000. He talks of his symbiotic relationship with his long…
Why Americans should be jealous of Finland’s wildly progressive education system
BY: DANIEL KORN Much has been made of Finland’s incredibly successful education system. In the 1960s, faced with economic turmoil after a series of smaller wars throughout the World War II years, Finnish Parliament made the wise realization that the…
5,000-year-old underground city recently discovered 113 metres below the earth
BY: ZOE MELNYK A construction company in Turkey accidentally discovered what is possibly the largest underground city in the world, after starting an urban renewal project right above the city’s surface. Turkey’s Housing Development Administration planned on using the land…
The brilliant marketing campaign that turned diamonds into a precious stone
BY: ALEKSANDRA TARABIC In today’s fast-paced world, offering uncertainties to even the luckiest, finding the reassuring promise of forever has become as rare and as valuable as a radiant diamond. Diamonds, a precious stone, offer many that promise of “forever”…
This is why being bilingual changes your personality for the better
BY: ALEKSANDRA TARABIC So goes the Czech proverb, “learn a new language and get a new soul.” As Benjamin Lee Whorf, an American linguist, maintained in the 1920s, it could be said that each language holds a worldview that its…
Photographer captures the deteriorating ghosts of Crackland
BY: SARAH ROBERTSON Sao Paulo, Brazil is the ground of the world’s second biggest crack epidemic just behind the United States. With high levels of addiction, poverty and violence, the city has garnered the nickname also known as Cracolandia or…
This man single-handedly planted a tropical forest larger than central park (VIDEO)
BY: ROB HOFFMAN In 2009 local photographer and journalist, Jitu Kalita, discovered a dense forest at the centre of Majuli Island’s barren western shores. As Kalita explored the shoreline, he was nearly attacked by a man who had mistaken him…
Dark Cyanide is an 18-year old urban explorer scaling NYC’s tallest skyscrapers (Photos)
Dark Cyanide is an 18-year-old, New York City photographer who describes his work as “urban history”. In case you haven’t already guessed it, Dark Cyanide is undeterred by security guards or no trespassing signs and his curiosity has taken him…
France passes a law requiring new rooftops to be covered with plants or solar panels
BY: TYLER FYFE Earlier this month France passed legislation in response to pressure from environmental activists that all buildings constructed in commercial zones must have sections roofed with solar panels or green spaces. According to smog readings by air pollution…
Photographer captures the face of remote cultures on the brink of extinction (Photos)
From blistering semi-desert to the frigid tundra, Photographer Jimmy Nelson travelled across five continents to document the distinctive cultures that continue to live in harmony with nature. Due to globalization and implied cultural homogenization, cultures like these have become a…
Biohackers have found a way to inject night vision into human eyeballs
BY: MICHAEL LYONS An independent research organization, Science for the Masses seeks to take the scientific process out of the hands of gatekeeping institutions. Biochem researcher Gabriel Licina volunteered as a guinea pig for a solution that ultimately proved successful…
Architect designs an urban tree house that can clean polluted air
Architect, Luciano Pia, recently proved eco living is completely possible in an urban setting by designing a 5-story apartment complex in Turin, Italy, that lets tenants reconnect with their childhood dreams— letting them feel like they are living in an…
DNA nanobots will target cancer cells in the first human trial using a terminally ill patient
BY: DANIEL KORN The very mention of “nanobots” can bring up a certain future paranoia in people—undetectable robots under my skin? Thanks, but no thanks. Professor Ido Bachelet of Israel’s Bar-Ilan University confirms that while tiny robots being injected into…
This Oregon tantric sex cult committed the largest incidence of bioterrorism on U.S. soil
BY: SINEAD MULHERN Nearly 30 years ago, one of America’s most dangerous cults was at its peak. When one man presented himself as a guru and established a following of wealthy westerners, he left his home in India to set…
The windows of your house could soon be made of solar panels
BY: DANIEL KORN One of the biggest hurdles in the way of the average citizen getting on board with solar power is the way they look. It’s not hard to understand why—rectangular panels covering the top of your roof is…
For 75 days, Costa Rica has been powered using exclusively renewable energy
BY: TYLER FYFE Costa Rican Electricity Institute announced in a press release last week that 100 per cent of its electricity has come from renewable energy sources in the last 75 days. Since January 2015, surplus rainfall has supplied hydroelectric…
Chris and Eve are a drug-addicted couple living in New Jersey’s most notorious slum (Photos)
Written and photographed by: Christopher Occhicone Tent City, which had up to 100 residents at any given time, could be many things to many people. Some residents had planned badly, fell on hard times, and ended up in TC. They used…
Bike campers are giving nomads a new way to travel
BY: ZOE MELNYK A number of modern nomads are taking minimalist living one step further past the van life and are instead slowly converting to the new idea of bike campers. Bike campers allow travellers to venture anywhere they physically…