China’s Air Pollution And Scrapped Vehicles

Jun 15, 2015

China has been cracking down on high-emission vehicles in an effort to reduce pollution, leading to an increase in the number of recycling c...

Nauru: An Island Country Destroyed by Phosphate Mining

Jun 13, 2015

Nauru is a small island country, a speck in the Pacific Ocean, with an area of only 21-square-kilometers. It is the smallest state in the So...

Murphy's Haystacks

Jun 12, 2015

Murphy’s Haystacks are a group of ancient, wind-worn rock of pink granite located between Streaky Bay and Port Kenny on the Eyre Peninsula i...

The Volcano House of Newberry Springs

Jun 12, 2015

The Volcano House is a flying-saucer-shaped house that sits atop a 150-foot tall cinder cone of an extinct volcano in the western Mojave Des...

The Cooper-Young Trestle Gateway

Jun 11, 2015

The historic neighborhood of Copper-Young in the Midtown section of Memphis, in the United States, named for its placement at the intersecti...

Sorcerer’s Apprentice: A Dancing Power Pole in Oberhausen

Jun 10, 2015

On the banks of the Emscher River, near the wooded public garden Gehölzgarten Ripshorst, in the German city of Oberhausen, stands a peculiar...

The Painted Dunes of Lassen Volcanic National Park

Jun 10, 2015

The Painted Dunes are multicolored pumice fields formed by oxidation of volcanic ash as they fell out of volcanic eruptions that have sculpt...

Svinafellsjokull Glacier: The Real Life Location of Dr Mann’s Planet

Jun 10, 2015

Iceland, with its stunning landscape forged by breathtaking glaciers and angry volcanic forces, is lately turning out to be Hollywood’s favo...

Watermelon Snow

Jun 9, 2015

In the high alpine region, at altitudes of 10,000 to 12,000 feet, sometimes patches of pink or red appear on snow. The phenomenon is commonl...

Denver Chalk Art Festival

Jun 9, 2015

The Denver Chalk Art Festival is an annual two-day street painting festival that takes place on Larimer Square in Denver, the United States....