Human Impact on Poland's Environment As Seen From Air

May 8, 2014

Famed aerial photographer Kacper Kowalski , featured previously on our website , has taken to the skies again, this time to document the com...

Piles of Beluga Whale Bones at Abandoned Whaling Station in Svalbard

May 8, 2014

The island of Spitsbergen, the largest and only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in Norway, was the site for extensi...

Mehdi Ghadyanloo’s Playful Street Art in Tehran

May 7, 2014

Iranian artist and designer Mehdi Ghadyanloo , with the help of the municipality, is slowly brightening up the city of Tehran one wall at a ...

Raja Ampat Islands

May 5, 2014

Raja Ampat, or the Four Kings, is an archipelago comprising over 1,500 small islands, cays, and shoals in the northwest tip of Bird's He...

The Plain of Jars

May 5, 2014

In the mountains of northern Laos in Xieng Khouang province, are scattered thousands of giant stone jars each weighing several tons. The jar...

Oscar Wilde's Lipstick-Covered Tomb in Paris

May 5, 2014

The memorial of the famous 19th century Irish writer and poet, Oscar Wilde, lies in a cemetery in Paris. Chiseled out of a 20-tonne block of...

The Bloodwood Tree

May 4, 2014

Pterocarpus angolensis is a kind of teak native to southern Africa, known by various names such as Kiaat, Mukwa, and Muninga. It is also ca...

Mangalitsa, The Pig That Resembles a Sheep

May 4, 2014

Mangalitsa or Mangalica is a rare breed of pig of Hungarian origin that has an unusual growth of curly hair over its body, akin to that of a...

Towing Icebergs Away From Oil Platforms

May 2, 2014

Every year 20,000 to 40,000 icebergs are born out of glaciers in Greenland and carried away by the currents and into the North Atlantic wher...

Myanmar’s Manual Oil Drills

May 1, 2014

Myanmar is rich in natural resources, but much of this remains untapped. Political sanctions imposed by the military regime that ruled the c...