Get the Picture

By Lionel Mann

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

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Issue 58 | July/August 2007

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

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Ring me up sometime

By Krishna Rau

Not that cellphones need any more selling points, but they’re now being used to trap leopards in India that venture too close to villages...read more

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Little Shrimp, Big Problems

By Krishna Rau

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

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Longing for LAOS

By Ian Wright

Wright explores a bitterly sweet land that is a study in contrasts...read more

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Ultra Man

By Zalina Alvi

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

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Put it in the Vault

By Krishna Rau

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

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