If you’re like many travellers, one of the first things you do after returning from a trip is regale friends with tales of your misadventures while marveling at your amazing photos. What? They’re not amazing?...read more
This issue features scenes from Algondquin Park, rats, the evolutionary key of the horned dinosaurs, cycling the Silk Road and the fourth annual Road Trip Guide, plus much more...read more
When a shrimp is named the bloody red mysid, you know it isn’t destined to be a cocktail appetizer. In fact, the bloody red mysid, or Hemimysis anomala, is the latest foreign intruder to invade the Great Lakes, and it could turn out to be one of the deadliest...read more
He’s an unlikely hero. Three years ago, Ray Zahab was a pack-a-day smoker who had never run a marathon—let alone an “ultra-marathon”—in his life. Today, meet one of the first modern runners to cross the Sahara on foot...read more
The government of Norway is scheduled to begin work this year on a $3 million “seed vault,” which will hold around three million varieties of seeds in safety...read more