In Antarctica, Canadian scientists have a ‘momentous’ chance to learn more about climate change

Scientists say Antarctica’s ice and oceans play outsized role in regulating Earth’s climate In the middle of an active volcano at the bottom of the world, dozens of fur seals bask in blowing wet snow. They are mostly unfussed by their two-legged guests. Around them lie cockeyed iron tanks and wooden boats from an early 20th-century whaling […]

5 Eerie abandoned places

Hashima Island, Japan One of 505 deserted islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture, this island was used during the industrialisation of Japan for its undersea coal mines. It was finally closed in 1974 and all residents left the island Pripyat, Ukraine This town of 50,000 people was deserted en masse after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. […]