How Las Vegas’s Survival Depends on Its Water Sources

If there is one atypical American city, it would have to be Las Vegas. While most people come to gamble and forget about daily life for a while, many others see Las Vegas as a perfect place to raise a family.
Ads for potential homeowners show green golf courses, water-based landscapes, and life on the edge of natural surroundings. The temperature is warm, it rarely rains, and the scenery is beautiful. The city in the middle of a desert is a lush oasis of large casinos surrounded by housing developments. What Las Vegas does best is create visions.

Canyoneering in Australia’s Stunning Blue Mountains

Treading silently on moss covered trails, it is a long walk to reach your destination in Australia’s Blue Mountains.

What It Feels Like To Free-fall 15,000ft Through the Air

These amazing pictures of parachutists free-falling are a recreation of a death-defying jump by Mike Holmes where not only his main parachute failed but his reserve did as well.

The Return of Propeller Aircraft: Why Turboprops Are Making a Comeback

Think of propellers and you might immediately conjure images of Indiana Jones, World War II flying aces and creaky crop dusters.

Incredibly Life-like Home Interiors Created in Miniature

Being the proud owner of a swish interior akin to those in the glossy home magazines that line the shelves of newsagents is becoming more and more desirable.

Human Planet: How People Survive in Extreme Conditions

Since the dawn of mankind, people have had to learn how to survive in conditions that were difficult, at best, and which could often be deadly. Early humans worked out how to make fire, enabling them to survive in cold and inhospitable lands. Others had to deal with scorching heat, living in equally hostile environments. But many people still live in extreme circumstances, and Human Planet, a television series being launched by Eden, explores how they “survive by building complex, exciting and often mutually beneficial relationships with their animal neighbors and the hostile elements of the natural world.”

The Ongoing Suffering of Chernobyl’s Survivors

The Chernobyl disaster of 1986 represents the world’s worst nuclear accident. The initial explosion killed two employees and exposed 28 workers to lethal doses of radiation. An additional 106 people were hospitalized for several months with acute radiation sickness. During the long clean-up process, a further 750,000 workers, known as ‘liquidators’, were also exposed to varying doses of radiation over several years. On top of this, over 350,000 people were relocated, forced from their homes and the lives they knew.