Uttarakhand Trekking Ban: The Adventure Tourism Industry Reacts
India's adventure tourism leaders are fighting back against the High Court's blanket ban on alpine trekking in the Uttarakhand.
“Frack”-tured Community: Colorado Plans to Alter the Future of Natural Gas Drilling
The grassroots initiative, which Boulder voters will see on the ballot come November, would mandate a state-wide, half-mile “buffer zone” of fracking wells from occupied buildings.
Adventure Tourism in India Leading to Deaths and Massive Environmental Degradation
Litigation against mass trekking operations has led to a ban on nearly all mountain tourism in Uttarakhand, leaving 100,000 jobless and an industry without a future. But this doesn't solve the problem or punish those responsible.
Secrets of the Nahanni: The Valley of Headless Men
Stoking the Flames: Climate Change driving the West’s Devastating Wildfires
Anthropogenic climate change contributed to California’s record-breaking wildfires. The future of fighting these fires grows increasingly perilous.
The Remarkable Motorsport Team Who Swam to Save Lives During the Kerala Floods
Despite endless setbacks, this group persevered and risked their own lives by swimming up to 12km at a time, to convince people to climb into their rafts and abandon homes to the rising water.
An Introduction to Olympic Surfing, with New Zealand's Paige Hareb
Learn about surfing's induction into the Olympics, and how New Zealand's top surfer, Paige Hareb, is preparing for the 2020 Games in Tokyo.