Month: April 2018

The Tragic Demise of the Northern White Rhino

Sudan was the last Northern white rhino male of his species.  He died of natural causes in March.  He is survived by two female Northern white rhinos at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy where Sudan lived out his last few years. In the last decades, efforts to save the species by protection agencies and organizations were Read More

Chernobyl 32 Years After the Tragedy

Today the Ukrainian city of Chernobyl and its surrounding areas are an apocalyptic landscape of nuclear fallout.  It is forbidden to enter many areas under government restrictions. Chernobyl has been the biggest environmental and human disaster of its kind in history.  Hundreds of thousands of residents in the area were forced to flee, with no Read More