I’ve always been fascinated by people who’ve made it their mission in life to churn out kids at the same rate the folks behind the Now That’s What I Call Music! series pumped out compilation albums in the 1990s and I’ve devoted more hours of my life watching reality television shows that document

Author: Eileen Cho / Source: Atlas Obscura The wild region of Lapland, in Finland, is located so far north that it experiences nearly endless summer sunlight, which locals refer to as the “Midnight Sun.” But when summer ends, the the sun soon sets just a few hours after it rises. This unique,

For extreme sports athletes, there’s no trip too complicated, long, or difficult if that adventure leads to the holy grail of rides. Big wave surfers crisscross the globe in search of the perfect wave. Skiers and snowboarders get dropped off by helicopters on the tops of the highest mountains on

Authored by Federico Pieraccini via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The Silk Road, renamed the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is developing infrastructure along land and sea trade routes. However, little is known about China’s initiative in the Arctic Circle, which represents a new route that

In late February, concerns about a potential nuclear "incident", reportedly in the vicinity of the Arctic circle, emerged when trace amounts of radioactive Iodine-131 of unknown origin were detected in January over large areas in Europe, according to a report by the Institute for Radiological