It is often said that life began on a river bed. It's no surprise that, still today, the world's rivers make up some of the most fundamental sources of fresh water and habitats for life of all kinds. Unfortunately, some of the largest and most highly-needed rivers are under attack from environmental threats that have already caused potentially fatal disruption. That's why the WWF, World Wide Fund for Nature, compiled a list of some of the most threatened rivers in the world. Based on the results of international assessments, the WWF based their list on six of the most significant threats to rivers: dams and infrastructure, excessive water extraction, climate change, invasive species, over-fishing, and pollution. They singled out rivers that are either already suffering the most as a result of any or all of these threats or are in line to be heavily impacted: 1. Salween — Nu The Salween river basin is the second largest in Southeast Asia and runs, starting along the Southwest edge of China, from the northern edge of India, past Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand, eventually spilling into the Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean. According to the WWF, 6 million people depend on the Salween to make a living and find sources of protein and nutrient rich food...

Bed Bugs-just the words make most people shudder and unconsciously scratch at their skin. For those unfamiliar with this unpleasant creature, the term bed bug refers to tiny (they range in size of a poppy seed to a apple seed) insects in the genus cimex that feed on human blood(they have not be known to [...]

Summer is when a lot of people around the world vacation or just like to have a little more fun than normal. Coincidentally, summer is a chance to catch up on taking a proper gander at the world around you and capturing that moment. No matter how you capture it, (whether it is a mental [...]

    As I learned from movies like “Grease”, “The Notebook”, and “Dirty Dancing”, summer is the time for love. Unfortunately not everybody has the time, or money, to go to a summer get-away where they can meet their opposite and fall in madly in love.  So in honor of summer I decided to put [...]