Contributed by Lee Seungwon Drinking lake water without any governmental approval, the people of Laos seemed perfectly content, though tests revealed unusual pH (acidity), TOC (total organic carbon), and TN (total nitrogen) levels in the water. A few thousand kilometers from Laos lies a country obsessed
An average rhinoceros, armed with a large horn and protective skin 1.5 cm thick, can grow to a thousand kilograms. In 2015, no fewer than 1,175 of these seemingly dangerous animals perished at the hands of poachers in South Africa. While South Africa, Zimbabwe and
For some in the West, climate change is still a topic to be hotly debated. However, in many areas of the world rapid shifts in weather patterns have already arrived. Unfortunately, these larger global trends are at risk of further deterioration by the broad growth
Robert Peary, Roald Amundsen, Tenzing Norgay, Edmund Hillary. All are names of explorers famous for reaching places considered unreachable. Peary reached the North Pole in 1909, and Amundsen reached the South Pole in 1911, just beating Robert Falcon Scott’s British expedition by five weeks. Norgay
