Defiant mourners for “murdered” Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have queued in lines stretching around the block in Moscow to lay tributes on a mountain of flowers at his grave. In scenes that could worry the Kremlin, the people were openly showing
China has some of the most breathtaking natural landscapes in the world. Almost 12,000 mountains pepper its landscape, including the famous Mount Everest, whose range is divided between it and Nepal. Many of the mountains are shrouded in religious mystery and have
A man in Utah used his handy snowboard to defend himself after a mountain lion attacked him on the snowy slopes. Charlie Duffy wrote in an Instagram post of his near-death experience at a ski resort in Beaver Mountain, Utah on Sunday,
The peak of Mount Everest “stinks of poo” according to climbers who have recently made the perilous trip up the world’s highest mountain. Some have suggested that the mountain has become an “open toilet” due to the amount of human waste that
Rescuers dug out more bodies from a landslide-hit southern Philippine village on Thursday, bringing the death toll to 11 as the number of missing rose to 110, officials said. At least 31 residents survived with injuries when the landslide hit the gold-mining
Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is an infectious disease caused by bacteria transmitted to humans via tick bites. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that “most people who get sick with RMSF will have a fever, headache, and rash.
What if you could build a clock that would last for 10,000 years? A clock that would tick only once a year, bong once a century, and cuckoo once a millennium? A clock that would be a symbol of long-term thinking and
An outbreak of Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) in southern California has led to three deaths, according to a Dec. 8 health advisory from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The total of five reported cases all involved affected people
A small European town is capturing the imagination of tourists because it is carved into a mountain – meaning its residents literally ‘live under a rock’. The beautiful Spanish town is wedged underneath the rocks of a gorge created by the stunning
An astonishing underwater mountain has been discovered by excited scientists which is about twice the size of the tallest building on earth, the Burj Khalifa. Oceanographers were left stunned when they detected the gigantic 5,249ft seamount – and they hope the discovery