Surviving in the world’s poorest slums When people think of survival stories they normally picture someone stuck in the middle of the jungle or huddled under a tree in the Arctic, but there are millions of people trapped in certain areas of the world living one...
The largest unclaimed territory on earth Our planet has a surface area of 510.1 million km2, but only 148.3 km2 of this is above sea level. The vast majority of the land is covered by one of the 195 countries around the world, but there are a few places that remain...
Whats under Antarcticas ice The fifth biggest continent in the world also happens to be the most mysterious, with not a single person ever seeing in person the land that lies below the ice. The best estimates that people can come up with, claim that Antarctica was...
Surviving the Darien Gap Starting in the north of Canada and running for around 19,000 miles (30,000 km) is the Pan-American Highway. This giant network of roads is considered by the Guinness Book of Records to be the longest motorable road on earth, but it does have...
Will humans survive climate change? Over the last few years, climate change has constantly been in the news, whether it’s in the form of land being lost to rising tides, or yet another protest causing havoc in the streets. The argument is that with our use of...
Things the human race couldn’t survive without Food, water, and shelter are the three basic things a human needs to stay alive, and everything after this is for the reasons of comfort, efficiency, and so on. Everything we have comes from the planet we live on...